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MARTIN F. TUPPER. 



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LONDON : 
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25, PATERNOSTER ROW. 
1855. 









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Again, THUS FAE: tlie world goes whirling on, 
And each man's life is full of chance and change, 
"While all withal that seem'd so new and strange 
Looks like an old familiar soon as done: 

So must the Soul, that up and down doth range 
Eestless and energetic, set up straight 
Its Eunic record ever and anon, 
Or pile its cairn of pehbles, one by one, 
To mark the ways that lead to Duty's gate; 
And I, much musing in mine ivied grange, 
Thankful for life at such a busy time, 

And earnest, though much erring every way, 
Often fling out my way- side heap of rhyme 
To rest some wearied traveller, as it may. 



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PAGE 

These Days 1 

The Heart's Harvest 6 

*Praise and Blame 9 

Human Life 10 

*Peace and Strife 15 

Railway Times 16 

Attractions 20 

Repulsions 21 

Each One of Us 22 

^Success 24 

Warmth 25 

The Mingled Cup 28 

*Eheu! fugaces . . , 32 

A Maxim of Peace 33 

Patience ; the False 36 

Patience; the True 37 

Self-restraint 38 



VI CONTENTS. 

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A Word of Wisdom 39 

Progress 41 

True Nobility 42 

Individuality 45 

The Sense of Wrong 48 

The Sense of Right 50 

*A Reflection 52 

w^hat we all feel 54 

The Gentleman 56 

Warning , . . . . 60 

The Heart and the Mind 62 

The Common Complaint 65 

Answered 67 

*Fact 69 

The Field, the World 71 

To a Generous Youth B 72 

Time's Honour 74 

A Thought in a Thoroughfare 75 

Silence 78 

The Good and the True 80 

Chaos Crystallizing . . . . 83 

*A Consolation 86 

*A Sigh 88 

Good and Evil 91 

Strange Attributes 92 

The Lost Arctic 93 

Truth 96 

Duty 98 

Moving on 100 

Cruelty: as between Man and his Brother .... 103 






CONTENTS. Vll 

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Cruelty: as between Man and his Beast 107 

Blucher's "Forwards!" Ill 

Aspire 114 

Providential Hints 117 

The Heart's Yotjthfulness 118 

Fraternal Egotism 119 

Calculated Comfort 120 

Paradise Lost 121 

Cheerfulness 122 

Liberty ..... 124 

Courage » 128 

Long Ago 130 

In a Drought 131 

In a Frost.— The 25th of April, 1854 133 

Added, in August 135 

Tangley Pond 136 

Wait 139 

Chobham 140 

Spithead 141 

The Burnt Church 142 

For the Madeira Famine-fund 145 

Influences 147 

^Impulse 148 

A Song for Rifle-Clubs 149 

The Soldier Comforted -. 150 

*The Gracious Message 152 

Woes for the Czar 154 

*To Florence Nightingale . 159 

This War 160 

The Cause 161 



Vlll CONTEXTS. 

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*JUDGED . 162 

Hymn for our Day of Prayer, on the Declaration of 

War 163 

Another , 165 

Harvest Hymn for 1854 167 

Another 169 

England Approved 171 

*Heart in Office 172 

* Waterloo Avenged 175 

*The New Order 177 

A Reply to Certain 180 

The Gone Before 181 

A. E. T. . , , 183 

Alice-Evelyn 185 

W. G. T .190 

Blindness , 192 

Hear the Church 193 

On a Child who died at Birth 194 

Winterhalter's Royal Children 196 

Genius bound: a Model 197 

The Paris Gathering 198 

*To the Nation 201 

*Purchase 202 

*Caste 203 

*New Statesmen 204 

The Heart's Gallop 205 



The Poems with an Asterisk are new to this Edition : and several 
of the former Edition are omitted. 



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Haste ! the poor old Earth is dying, — 
Do God service while you can; 

Haste ! too hurriedly is flying- 
All this halcyon chance of man; 

Haste ! for Time shall be no longer, — 
All Creation's weepings tend 

In a rapid ever stronger 

To that cataract, The End! 

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Lo ! the cycled years revolving 

Turn to their first goal again, — 
Every Sphynx-enigma solving, 

Every riddle reading plain; 
All things speak to man sublimely 

With Apocalyptic mouth, 
Nature's consummation timely 

Telling out from North to South! 



Yea, what privilege and gladness 

Dwell with modern men and things, 
Vainly waited for in sadness 

By old prophets and old kings ! 
Children see what sages doubted, 

Peasants know what patriarchs guess'd,- 
And the sword of Truth has routed 

Every he from East to West. 



Ancient wrongs are being righted, — 

Ancient rights lift up the head ; 
Savage realms and tribes benighted 

Rise to life as from the dead ; 
Ignorance is out of season, 

Wickedness is glad to hide, — 
Nothing stands but faith and reason, 

Nothing falls but sin and pride. 



We, in days so full and fleeting, 

Spend our lives on eagles' wings, 
Throng'd by marvels marvels meeting, 

Flock'd about by wondrous things; 
Every day the whole world's history 

Spread out map-like stirs the mind, 
Every day some ripen'd mystery 

Stands consummate for mankind I 
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Nineveh with ghostly message 

Eises from her mounded graves; 
Polar Ice has clued the Passage 

Winding through its hummock'd waves ; 
Saurian monsters crawl before us, — 

Storms their whirling laws avow, — 
All Creation shouts in chorus 

" Nothing shall be secret now ! " 



Earth's forgotten wastes and corners, 

Peopled thick through gold broadcast, 
Tell the scoffers and the scorners 

How she is " subdued" at last; 
God commands; and nothing frees us 

Till that word we all obey, — 
Even China bows to Jesus, 

Even Africa doth pray ! 



Bavel-skeins of old beginnings 

Tapestried around the Cross, — 
And Creation's final winnings 

Well outbalancing her loss, — 
All subdued, and all replenished, 

All things sealing up the sum, 
Preach, how nearly It is finish'd, 

Tell how soon the Christ may come ! 



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How little we know of each other ! 

How lightly and loosely are known ! 
How seldom is brother with brother 

The same as he is when alone ! 
Though relatives round a man gather, 

Though cordial he seem with his friend, 
Not even the child and its father 

As spirit with spirit can blend. 



The depths of a man are not sounded, 

The heights of his thoughts are not seen. 
The breadth of his feelings unbounded 

Is veil'd by Society's screen; 
We none of us heed what a greatness 

Is hidden away in the Heart 
That, mask'd in a well-bred sedateness, 

Is playing its company part. 



O Soul ! that in solitude yearnest 

For tenderer knowledge of friends, 
The intimate, honest, and earnest, 

Untainted by Self and its ends, — 
Alas ! for the lies of romances, 

And stolid reality's truth; 
Alas ! for the generous fancies 

That gladden'd a man in his youth ! 



Not here, where in spirit thou starrest, 

Athirst for the flagons of love, 
Not here — is the happy heart-harvest 

That gladdens the blessed above; 
In heavenly meads we may reap it, — 

But now the heart's garden is found 
With scarcely one flower to keep it 

Mapp'd out from the wilderness round ! 



Those "spirits made perfect" in glory! 

I long then companion to be, — 
That Love's ever-musical story 

Be sung by those reapers — and me ; 
That Heart may discover its treasures 

Unfearing, to dear ones above, 
And all the full harvest of pleasures 

Be reap'd by the Spirit of Love ! 



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If thou art praised, be sure that envious spite 
"Will dodge thee sullenly; will never shrink 
Prom blotting thy fair fame with slander's ink; 
And, where it can, right cruelly will smite: 

If thou art praised, thou standest on the brink 
Of peril, and art near to be cast down 
Either through vain conceits, or brainless fright 
Of some malignant critic's sneer or frown: 
But if loud blame assault thine honour's crown, 
Take comfort; for that, to defend the right, 
A generous troop of friends shall surely come 

To vindicate thy hooted words and ways, 
Tending the Pythian victor to his home 

With more than he deserves of love and praise. 



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By the waste of toil and treasure 

For so slender gains, — 
By the poor amount of pleasure 

Bought of many pains, — 
By the hopes and fears unceasing 

Both in turn put out, — 
By the worries still increasing 

With their rabble rout, — 



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Human Life, thou robe of Nessus ! 

We are clad in cares; 
And the very joys that bless us 

Are but snakes and snares; 
And the troubles and the trials, 

Somehow wisely sent, 
Turn to seem pernicious vials 

Pour'd in punishment ! 



By each vast anticipation 

And its meagre fact, — 
By so slight appreciation 

Of each generous act, — 
By the coldness, and the meanness 

In too many found, — 
By the hard unkindly keenness 

Watching all around, — 



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Human Life, thou face of Gorgon ! 
We are harden'd up, 

And each sympathetic organ 
Freezes at thy cup, 

And affection's purest feeling 
Curdles into gall, 

And Religion's touch of healing- 
Does not sweeten all ! 



By the Past, — a word of sadness 

"Wet with silly tears ; 
By the Present, — promised gladness 

Cheating us for years; 
By the Future, — dread enigma, 

Who shall guess its truth? 
By Fame's breath, and Slander's stigma 

Vexing Age and Youth; — 



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Human Life, O bitter sweetness, 

Chequer'd white and black, — 
Yet dost thou achieve a meetness 

"Which thy children lack; 
Whatsoe'er the wind or weather, 

Joy it is to tell 
All things work for good together 

And shall yet be well ! 



By the thousand tints of Beauty 

Dropt on every side, — 
By the magic thought of Duty 

Whatsoe'er betide, — 
By the mercies yet about us 

Little understood, 
By all else within, without us, 

Ministering good, — 



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Human Life ! O wondrous story ! 

Full of light and shade, 
Soon shalt thou be lit with glory 

That can never fade ; 
Soon Affection and Ambition 

Shall be fully blown, 
And Our Life achieve its mission 

On a Royal Throne ! 



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Jtstt snJr Strife. 



" Live peaceably with all, for aught in thee, 

If it be possible : " — but is it so, 

"When every faithful word ensures its foe, 
And wrath and impulse, in their due degree, 

Make the lip quiver and the forehead glow? 
Peace is not always duty; peace forsooth 

Were sinful compromise with evil men, 
Whose armed phalanx from the seeds of truth 
Springs forth, a foeman from each dragon's tooth : 

If thou essayest good by tongue or pen, 
Or, worst of all, by force of blameless life, 

One martyrdom is certain; thou shalt smart 
A pierced Sebastian from the shafts of strife 

Aim'd at a loving though a zealous heart. 



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rapid days, electric hours, 

Flashing with all that kindles life.- 
O shifting scene of suns and showers 

O melodrame of love and strife. — 
Such stirring racing days as these 

Are all too full of strong effects 
For stale simplicity to please, 

Or equal what the world expects. 



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Time was, a wonder lived nine days, 

And sorry talents grew to fame ; 
But now, one minute's curious gaze 

Is all we give to note or name: 
Glutted with news of all things strange, 

We scarcely care to watch the turns 
Our quick kaleidoscope of Change 

Is working in the world's concerns. 



The foaming river of events 

Hushes adown its rocky steep, 
And causes, facts, and consequents 

Are hurl'd together in a heap, 
And keen Excitement's rainbow light 

Hangs iridescent o'er the fall 
Of waters rushing in their might, 

Solemnly overwhelming all, — 



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Ay, — a Niagara-life is ours ! 

No rest, but ever hurried on 
By the great deep's gigantic powers, 

By the strong wind Euroclydon, — 
Yea, by the mighty flood of fate, 
♦ Yea, by the gale of human crimes 
We speed along, as if " too late " 

Were the great terror of the times. 



The lotus-eaters all are dead; 

There is no nook for quiet thought; 
The halcyon birds of peace are fled, 

And calm contentments come to nought; 

Spur on,— spur on ! our steeds are strong, 

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No need to spare them in the pace; 

With reckless energy headlong 

We all resolve to win the race. 



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O day of hot competing strife ! 

O crowded scene of struggling sin ! 
What chance of any prize in life 

Has any tyro battling in? 
The rarest worth wins little gold; 

Wisdom has barely wit to live ; 
What chance, compared with calms of old, 

Does all our hurly-burly give? 



What chance ? — my counsel is, keep still ; 

They do not drown who lie afloat, — 
And quietness sets free the will 

To pilot well the crankest boat; 
And, — he that stands aloof from strife, 

Calmly resolved to thread the maze, 
Shall quell to his Success in life 

The riot of these rapid days, 
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Love must have loveliness to feed upon, 
Or he shall starve: the beautiful, the pure, 
The sister-spirit's innocent sweet lure 

Drawing out fragrance like a gentle sun, — 
The frankness, yet the tenderness, of truth 
Nourishing up for their immortal youth 

The nurselings of Affection one by one,- — 
With charities, and looks and voices kind, 
The gracious heart, the free and generous mind,- 

These are Love's intimates, his brotherhood, 
Joy of his soul and apple of his eye, 

The noble and the comely and the good; 
But if such true companions be not nigh, 

He pines away for want of spirit-food. 



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Love is akin to Peace, that mother's child, 

Dying of clamour: love, the lamp of life, 
Shines as a moon in harvest, mellow and mild, 

Not flaring up with Etna's fiery strife: 
Love shrinks from all contention; gentle things, 

The charitable thought and word and deed, 
The patient cheerfulness that sits and sings, 

Plying its daily duty, well agreed 
With all around, — here Love may fold his wings 

But he shall spread them, hasting to he freed 
From meannesses and strifes ; the jealous look, 

The jarring nerves of a discordant tongue, 
He cannot dwell with these; and will not brook 
Such poison-asps his flowers and fruits among. 



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Man ! weak insect, poor and proud, 
Atom, lost amid the crowd, 
Ever pushing on through life 
Buffeted hy sinful strife, — 
Man ! mere drop of all those seas, 
Leaf among the forest trees, 
Paltry pebble on the shore 
Heap'd by myriad myriads more, — 
Man ! mean item in the list, 
Hardly counted, little miss'd, 
Unconsider'd and unknown, 
Lightly cared for, left alone, 
Daily toiling in thy lot, 
And, when dead, remember'd not, — 
Man ! how evil is thy state, 
Cold, and stern, and desolate ! 



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Man ! rare chrysalis of Light 
Watch'd and nurst by angels bright, 
Heir of Grandeurs ! soon to be 
Bipen'd and reveal'd in thee, — 
Man ! true claimant of the Skies, 
Owner of Creation's prize, 
Waiting meek at Glory's door, 
King among ten thousand more, — 
Man ! great end of all beside, 
To the Lord of all allied, — 
Undiscover'd lump of gold, 
Spring unseal'd of joys untold, 
In thy duties daily blest, 
And — when all are done — at Best; 
Man ! how beauteous and divine 
Is this low estate of thine ! 




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Success hath many friends : some faithful found 
As grown to reverent love and just esteem ; 
Some other, not so hearty as they seem, 
Yeer fickle-minded with the winds around: 

Yet more, the shams and worldlings, only scheme 
Each shrewdly for his own, clinging to self 
More than to him who rises from the ground, 
Pride, reputation, pleasure, common pelf 

All binding to his wings: but many foes 
Crowd also round Success ; the Lion's track 
Is hunted by an envious jackal-pack 
Born to be disappointed, and to hate 

Goodness, maligning him behind his back, 
And vainly lusting for his high estate. 



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Writer, whosoe'er thou art, 

Speaker, on whatever theme, 
Write and speak from heart to heart, 

Truly heing what you seem ; 
Thoughts and words alone have power 

When they reach us quick and fresh, 
And the spirit of the hour 

Turns these stones to hearts of flesh ! 



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Living truth, that hubbies hot, 

Like a Geyser in the soul, 
Boils and steams and slackens not 

Till it overflows its bowl, 
Strongly runs the current then, 

Swiftly all the sluices fill, 
And the swollen hearts of men 

Are a river to thy will ! 



Who can wonder that in vain 

Scores of dullards preach for years, 
Lulling conscience to its bane 

Fast asleep in hopes and fears? 
All is death: each fossil thought 

Word- embedded lies in , clay, 
And no heart is touch' d or taught 

To feel, to tremble, or to pray. 



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It is not eloquence, nor skill, 

Nor any human power or art, 
That surely sways another's will, 

Controls his life and cheers his heart; 
It is the frank and earnest plan 

Of simple truth sincerely spoken, 
That "breaks the spirit of a man, 

Or heals it up however broken ! 



Seek then a living Warmth within 

To work with vital force without; 
Drive from thee selfishness and sin, 

And force thy fervent graces out; 
Then write or speak what impulse wills, 

And no man shall withstand the power 
That from the lip of truth distils 

In quicken'd feeling's thrilling hour ! 



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Happier under other skies, 

— So dreams man — 
Happier, link'd with other ties, 
Better, worthier, and more wise, 
Were Life's plan: 



Anyhow hut as things are, 

— So man dreams — 
Born beneath some kindlier star 
Surely Life were nobler far 
Than now seems ! 



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Most of us are dreamers here, 

Wishing a change; 
Athirst to spice our common cheer, 
This dull routine of daily sphere, 

With new and strange. 



Most are murmurers, kicking still 

Against our lot; 
Unhelieving God's wise will, 
That portions human good and ill, 

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And favours not. 



Discontent looks on, and longs, 

Envying other; 
Counting up his scars and wrongs 
Each man covets what belongs 

To his brother ! 



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Meantime, Duty's leaf and flower 

Both must wither; 
And, for Peace of Mind, — each hour 
Breeds its harpies to devour, 

Flapping hither. 



Then does Life, so vain at hest, 

Pine more weakly, 
Vampires draining it of rest, 
Where Contentment had been blest 

Bearing meekly. 



Oh ! let be ; thy fate is fixt, 

Cast by Heaven; 
Future, Past, and all betwixt 
Is a chalice shrewdly mixt, — 

Must and leaven: 



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Well fermented, weal and woe 

Make soul's wine, — 
And hereafter thou shalt know 
How Life's hitter yeast helow 
Doth refine. 



Earth may make thee taste her gall, 

Or drink it up; 
But Heaven shall make amends for all 
When thou dost keep high festival 

At God's own cup. 



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The flying years ! the flying years ! 

How rapidly they wing away, — 
With all their covey' d hopes and fears 

A mingled flock of grave and gay! 

Look on the Past, — a dream, a dream 
Of saddening thoughts and cloudy things ; 

Look at the Future, — does it seem 
Less than a Fate with folded wings? 

Look to the Present, — this indeed 
Is worth our all of cost and care, 

And daily oread for daily need 
Is . Wisdom's solitary pray'r. 



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Never have regrets, brother, 
But for sake of sin; 
The treacherous heart within 
All too soon forgets, brother, 
How it felt, and was, in thought, 
Acting out the thing it ought. 

All thy will was well, brother, 
Well diclst thou deserve; 
Circumstance might swerve, 
But, the truth to tell, brother, 
Consequences none foresee 
Never need be cares to thee. 



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Always for the best, brother, 
Hourly hast thou striven; 
Though to be forgiven, 
This shall be thy test, brother, — 
Did not honest zeal obey 
Duty's impulse every day ? 

What seem'd then so right, brother, 
Let no censure now, 
No unkindly brow, 
Damage in thy sight, brother; 
Yesterday did what it could; 
Scorn not thou its humbler good! 

To thyself be true, brother; 
Yield not to regret ; 
Nor thy spirit fret 
To do, or to undo, brother, 
What is now beyond thy skill ; 
Facts are facts, say what we will. 



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Every Present seems, brother, 
Girt about with friends ; 
Every Future sends 
Glory to thy dreams, brother ; 
But we all condemn too fast 
The friendless and the hopeless Past. 

Scorn not what thou wast, brother,- 
Trust not what thou art ; 
Watch thy coward heart ; 
Look to that thou hast, brother ; 
Nothing is within thy power, 
But the swiftly passing hour. 

Therefore do not set, brother, 
Sorrow on the past; 
When the die is cast 
Never nurse regret, brother : 
Only for thy sin be sad, 
For all beside be wisely glad ! 
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But this dead level, — Patience; what a change 

From Passion's craggy glens and crested heights ! 
What a dull ebb, — stagnation sad and strange 
Prom Peeling's tide of boundless ocean range 

"With flooding hopes and terrors and delights ! 
O Patience, — yet thou hast a baser name 

Cut in the flint of man's enduring heart, — 
Callous contempt alike of scorn and fame, 

Self, well resign' d to play the Stoic part, 
Or truer, as an Epicure to stand 
Balancing present comforts in the hand 

With cold philosophy: see, that thou disown 

This evil fruit of worldly trouble sown 

Which Man calls Patience, God, the heart of stone. 



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The martyr 'd spirit that can shrink and feel, 
Gently enduring long; the generous mind 
After ill-usage waiting to be kind; 

The man, who for his enemy can kneel 

And beg from Heav'n forgiveness to his sin; 
The outraged heart, all tenderness within, 

Though like a hero plated up in steel; 

These be the Patient ones whom God approves : 
He wills no feeling quench' cl, no hope destroyed ; 

He claims affection's life, the warmth of zeal, 
All noblest active impulses and loves 
Energized and encouraged and enjoy'd, — 

Then counsels Patience ; with her oily balm 

Lulling life's roughening surface to a calm. 



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Thee from thyself to rescue and to save, 

O man ! is God's salvation ; other foes 
Were easier conquest, even to The Grave : 
And for this end our God commandment gave 

That, all things whereby Nature works, in those 
Should man resist, lest he should be then slave: 

" Thou shalt not ' ? — is the law ; however hot 
Be wrath, or covetous wish, or low desire, 

Or any selfish purpose, thou shalt Not : 
Within thee lies a hidden fount of fire, 

And, if with evil thou dost fan a blaze, 
Woe, for the flaming house ; if self-control 

Chastens its fierceness into genial rays, 
Eejoice ! it glows the hearth-fire of the soul. 



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Make the best of all things, 

As thy lot is cast; 
Whatsoe'er we call things, 
All is well at last 
If meanwhile in cheerful power 
Patience rules the suffering hour. 

Make the best of all things, — 

Howsoe'er they be; 
Change may well befall things, 
If it's ill with thee; 
And if well, this present joy 
Let no future fears destroy. 



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Make the best of all tilings, — 

That is Wisdom's word ; 
In the day of small things 
Is its comfort heard, — 
And its blessing soothes not less 
Any heyday of success. 

Make the best of all things ; 

Discontent's old leaven 
Falsely would forestall things 
Antedating heaven, — 
But smile thou and rest content, 
Bearing trials wisely sent. 



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These twenty years, — how full of gain to us, 

To common humble multitudinous Man ! 
How swiftly Providence advances thus 

Our flag of progress flaming in the van ! 
This double decade of the world's short span 
Is richer than two centuries of old ; 

Richer in helps, advantages, and pleasures, 
And all things wealthy — even down to gold — 

To all of every class in equal measures : 
We travel quicker now than Isthmians might; 

In books, we drink of more than Hebe's chalice 
All wonders of the world at one glad sight 
We find in our luxurious Crystal Palace ; 
And everywhere we see that right is might. 



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A vaunt — Exclusions cold and proud ! — 
Your doom is come, your day is past ; 
Not even Fashion dares to cast 

Contempt upon the common crowd. 

The lofty noble now must bend 
To own his humbler brother-man, 
And stoop to teach the artisan 

In hope betimes to make a friend. 



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It will not do to stand aside; 

Hani?: has its duties, as its dues ; 

The latter will we not refuse, 
If met with anything hut pride. 
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It shall not serve, that old-time plan 

Of making worship cling to hirth ; 

A magnate shorn of private worth 
Is hut the scorn and shame of Man. 

O Eank ! from nobler sires derived, 

O "Wealth ! purse-rich but nothing more, 
Grow worthier of your state and store 

Or of their homage go deprived. 

The time is come for truer things, 
When honour, love, and all beside, 
Refused to supercilious pride, 

Is paid to peasants as to kings. 



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For both alike are brethren true, 
Each in his station doing right, — - 
Beheld in superhuman light 

God's servants, earning wages due. 

None will deny the first and best, 
To king and noble gladly given, 
If they but live as, under Heaven, 

Set in high place to help the rest: 

But let them heed this mighty truth, — 
(Which, for their weakness, we would ken 
Indulgently as due to men 

Pamper'd in age and snared in youth) — 

If pride, or lust, or sloth forlorn 
Dim and defile their high estate, 
Our willing love is turn'd to hate, 

Our ready homage smiles in scorn. 



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Measuee not thyself with others, — 

Heed the work thou hast to do ; 
Each man's duty, not his brother's, 

Is his goal to keep in view : 
Nature, circumstance, and station, 

With what God from each exacts 
As his tribute to Creation, 

These decide our aims and acts. 



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Every creature fitly fashion' d 

Hath its being's final cause ; 
And our minds and hearts impassion'd 

Beat with individual laws : 
All are various, differing measures 

Fill us each with power to work, 
And the spirit's special treasures 

Latent in each bosom lurk. 



How shouldst thou declare the causes 

That have wrought thy brother thus ? 
Plastic Wisdom never pauses 

In such modelling of us : 
How canst thou suggest the reasons 

For his baser life or lot ? 
Matter has its changing seasons, 

"Why should spirit vary not? 



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Shall the Arctic blame the Torrid? 

Shall the East defame the West? 
Shall the foot rebuke the forehead 

That it thinks in lazy rest ? 
Every creature to its mission, 

Every bullet to its mark, 
Every man in his condition 

Wanted for the Church's Ark ! 



Scorn not, — envy not, — and judge not : 

Scorn is Folly's cruel wife ; 
And, for Envy, — Churl, begrudge not 

Some poor brother's luck in life ; 
And, for Judgment, — to our Master 

Singly we must stand or fall; 
Life's Foreknower, and Forecaster, 

Wills, and weighs, and shapes it all ! 



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Swollen torrent, dark and deep, 
Eushing down the rocky steep, — 
Tempest- driven cloud on high 
Scudding wildly through the sky, — 
Dread volcano, muttering death 
From red-hot lips with binning breath,- 
Scarce shall these in type reveal 
What the nobler spirits feel 
When, in silence stern and strong, 
They wrestle with the Sense of Wrong. 



49 

Ha! — when insult hisses near, 
Or scorn drops hemlock on the ear, 
Or fraud has triumph'd over right, 
Or gentleness is mock'd by might, 
Or only, worth is seen unprized, 
Or only, honour goes despised, 
Then, in a whirlwind chafes along 
The soul beneath a Sense of Wrong! 

Yes, — Patriot of a race downtrod; 
Yes, Martyr for a slander'd God ; 
Yes, Man of large and liberal mind 
Wroth with the meanness of mankind; 
Yes, all who love the lovely still, 
And hate the vile with right good will, — 
Your hearts can echo to my song, 
And ache beneath the Sense of Wrong! 



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Calm in well-deserving, 
Happy at the heart, 
Duty does his part 

Stedfast and unswerving. 

How should it affect him 
If some mocking-birds 
Clamour at his words, 

Or the world neglect him? 



51 

Conscience is the treasure 
Lock'd within his breast, — 
"What were all the rest 

To that inner pleasure? 

Brother, sunk in sorrow, 

Find thy balm within, 

To-day a comfort win 
Before the heavenly Morrow. 

Feed upon this blessing 

Though thy path be rough, 
Let it be enough 

Such a grace possessing: 

And when wrongs come near thee 
Crowding to the fight, 
Let the Sense of Eight 

Make thee strong and cheer thee! 
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Thou canst not help the thousand things 
That might be better done; 

Corruption its black shadow flings 
On all beneath the sun; 

'Not thought nor word or deed can reach 

The purity our yearnings preach, 

Nothing is perfect; be content, — 
Thank God it is no worse; 

Creation pays a bitter rent 

And sins beneath a curse; 

Thank God for blessing still bestow' d 

And grace to lift guilt's crushing load. 



53 

Thou canst not work thy nobler will 
Unvex'd by sin and strife; 

A mingled draught of good and ill 
Is still the cup of life; 

Take it and drink; for it is meet 

Thy spirit quaff that bitter sweet. 

Detraction like a scorpion stands 
To strike at men and things; 

The spider with her hideous hands 
Clings to the skirts of kings; 

Be sure thy cot shall not escape 

The poison of that dreaded shape. 

Slander shall mar thy purest work, 
And spot thy fairest robe; 

The cancer-roots of evil lurk 

Throughout the groaning globe; 

The thing well-done might better be; 

And there are thousand faults in thee. 



54 



W\ti M all feel 



Ah! Life, — so purposeless yet steep'd in self, 
I do confess thee, yea I do condemn thee, 

So pack'd with pleasure, or so plann'd for pelf, 
I do denounce thee, yea I do contemn thee. 

Ah ! Life, — so changeful, yet so dull and tame, 
I dread and doubt thee, while I must despise thee, 

So lotteried, and still so blank the same, 

I wait and hope, despairing while I prize thee. 



55 



Ah! Life, — be better; yet thou hast no crime 
Thus to abjure, for still thy will is worthy; 

Only thou weepest for the flight of time, 

And that thou art too useless and too earthy. 

Ah ! Life, — enduringly I watch and wait ; 

Winter is patient, till the day be lengthened, 
And well-ripe fruit, delay'd but not too late, 

Comes of a root by frosty sorrow strengthen'd. 

Yes, Life ! in hope for ever luring on 

I fight my way and strive for better things, 

Assured at last to find thy Battle won, 

And Victory fanning me with purpic wings. 



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Not alone by generous birth 

(Greatly though it fashions men). 
Not by all the wealth of earth, 

Not by all the talents ten, 
Not by beauty, nor by wit, 

No, nor manners well refined, — 
Is that name of honour writ 

On the forehead of the mind. 



57 



Poverty retains it oft, 

With the peasant it hath dwelt, 
And its influence sweet and soft 

In the scholarless heen felt ; 
Lowly birth, and sorrow's power, 

All that want of all things can, 
Have not marr'd — nor made — one hour 

That true knight, the Gentleman. 



Charity, — unselfish zeal 

Lest a sorrow or a shame 
Any one be made to feel 

Undeserving scorn or blame,— 
Dignity, — the generous sense 

That himself is heir outright 
To that heritage immense, — 

King and priest of worlds of light, — 



58 



Lowliness of heart withal, — 

Purity of word and life — 
Courage, — not for arms to eall 

But to quell insurgent strife, — 
Honour, — -for the good and true 

With Bayard to guard the van, — 
And what Courtesies are due, 

These make up the Gentleman. 

Ay, Sir calm and cold and proud, 

Trust me, for the word is true, 
There are thousands in the crowd 

Finer gentlemen than you; 
More, — for all your courtly birth 

And each boon by fortune given, 
Know that gentlemen of earth 

Are always gentle sons of heaven. 



59 

Chesterfields, and modes, and rules 

For polish' d age or stilted youth, 
And high breeding's choicest schools 

Need to learn this deeper truth, 
That to act, whate'er betide, 

Nobly on the Christian plan, 
This is still the surest guide 

How to be the Gentleman! 



60 



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Thine: not, O man, that strong Temptation's hour, 
For all thy might of mind, is past to thee; 
Dream not, presumptuous, that thy state is free 

From evil chance and change and Satan's power. 

Hot Nature still may vex thy soul within, 
And fire its house with wantonness or strife, 
Still can thy heart make shipwreck of its life, 

And drown in gulphs of dark tumultuous sin. 



61 



How canst thou guess the trials coming near, 
Or whether some lost spirit be not sent 
To lure thy pride to some due punishment, 

For that, high-minded, thou hast cast off fear? 

O never is there safety for the soul 

Out of true humbleness; the purest saint 

Shall burst through grace, and habit's good constraint, 

If lust and pride within him win control. 

Then, be thou ware, frail creature ! watch and pray ; 

Thou hast no stores, but only manna given; 

Go, flee temptation at the gates of heaven, 
And humbly ask thy daily bread to-day. 



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Warm heart, soft heart, generous and gentle, 

Full of sweet affections, sympathies, and loves, — 
How thou transcendest all the merely mental, 

How dost thou exceed in all The Holy One approves ! 
In affliction's hour 
Gracious in thy power 
Tenderly thou comfortest, a sister in distress, — 



63 



And when matters brighten, 
How thy smiles enlighten 
Every one that looks on thee, an angel sent to bless, 
Every eye that lights from thee its torch of hap- 
piness ! 



Clear mind, keen mind, walTd about with greatness, 

Conqueror unconquerable over human ill, 
Theban Colossus sitting in sedateness, 

How art thou in majesty a mighty spirit still ! 

In the day of trouble, 

Though its grief be double, 
Gloriously thou triumphest above the battle-din, 

And when, after sadness, 

All is turn'd to gladness, 
Thou remainest calm, a true philosopher within, 
Calm amidst a universe of folly, strife and sin! 



64 



Great heart! great mind! be ye both united, 

Knit in holy wedlock, mind and heart as man and wife, 

So shall the soul, to strength and beauty plighted, 
Bring forth all its precious fruits in perfect Christian life ! 

Ever full of feeling, 

Yet the spirit steeling 
Sturdily against the wrongs and troubles of this earth, — 

Ever strong and steady 

Yet in spirit ready 
Heartily to pity or to love where love is worth, 
Lovingly to live the life begun at second birth ! 



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Tyrannic Circumstance ! whose jealous power 
Guards every turn, and watches every hour, 
With secret influences controlling still 
The conduct, and the spirits, and the will, 
Alas, — that each of us is seen a slave, 
In fetters from the cradle to the grave! 
What? — am I free? each natural bent within, 
Inherited infirmity and sin, 
The brain, the disposition, and the shape, 
And new-hatch' d passion, slumbering or agape 
With tastes inclined for normal peace or strife, 
These warp the man, and mould his heart and life, 
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66 



What? — am I free? each artifice without, 

Wherein convention hedges us about, 

Family likenesses of make and mind, 

Habit, example, usage harsh or kind, 

And every tone and temper all around, 

These link the chain to keep the freeman bound. 

Poor Gulliver, the giant of the skies, 
Is tied to earth by countless petty ties ; 
Helpless in head and body, hands and feet, 
Worried by pigmies with their arrowy sleet, 
Humbled to wants, and cow'd by disesteem, 
And seeing things around as in a dream, 
Prostrate he lies, — with all his wit and power 
Made captive to the trifles of the hour ! 



Jtostomfc 



And yet, — What is this ruthless Circumstance? 
A stolid Fate? or trivial thing of Chance? 
What, O thou discontented ! is this Power 
Guiding thy way, and guarding every hour? 
Is it aught else than God's paternal care, — 
His Providence o'erruling everywhere, 
His kind and mighty and mysterious Will 
That fix'd thee where thou art, and holds thee still? 
O Mind and ignorant, — who dost not know 
That all our checks and trials here below, 
Our inner crosses, and our outer cares, 
Our wants, temptations, sorrows, fears, and snares, 
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68 



That all the disappointment and the strife 
That baffle hope and break the rest of life, 
All, all are sent, — and ordered from above 
In strictest justice and profoundest Love ! 
A slave ? in fetters ? — Yes ! for thou art bound 
To toil awhile for everything around; 
Not to himself may any creature live, — 
Not to delights his time and talents give, — 
Not think of Gain amidst a world of Loss, — 
But duteously go forth, and bear — a cross ! 
Thou canst not choose: the lot is cast for thee: 
Thy care be still in Duty's path to be; 
Under all hindrance striving for the best, — 
And leaving Heaven to care for all the rest. 



69 



The die is cast, — be satisfied; 

The chance is past, — be still: 
For this, no more Occasion's tide 

Can waft thee good or ill; 
The hour is gone, the deed is done, 
And all the battle lost or won. 

Stand on the Fact in patience strong, 

And never nurse regret; 
Bid this stern Present, right or wrong, 

That dreamy Past forget; 
And work with all thy skill and power 
The living duties of the hour. 



70 

All else is nought, all else is dead, 

Disguise it as we may; 
Causes with yesterday have sped, 

Results are here to-day; 
Take them, and use them as ye can 
Eight loyally for God and Man. 

The Thought that was not born a Thing 

Is only false Romance ; 
Reality is [Nature's King, 

Unfearing change or chance ; 
"When men can stand upon a Fact, 
Duty shows clear, and Faith may act. 



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Consider thou, — the world in which we live 
Is God's great field for wise experiment; 

Wherein, except what mercy must forgive, 
All else goes on by rule and measurement, 
True root and fruit, fit cause and consequent: 

And angels watch it all; those loving minds 
Note every just effect and mean and cause, 

And each Intelligence delighted finds 
In all the working of eternal laws, 
And so adores the Ruler: faith in Him 
Makes every riddle clear that else were dim; 

And all our trials to one issue tend, 

That issue, dear to saints and cherubim, 

God's glory, — our beginning, middle, end. 



72 



Iff a §mmm graft. 



Unworldly child of feeling, 

With kindled eye and kindly heart 
Incautiously revealing 

How loving and how true thou art, — 
Alas ! for men will use thee, 

And even while they use contemn, 
And in their turn refuse thee 

The help that thou hast yielded them. 



73 



Yet holy angels love thee, 

And yearningly they shield from harm 
As glorious guards above thee 

A spirit found so fresh and warm; 
And God Himself doth bless thee, 

And all the souls made perfect now 
In sympathy caress thee, 

Kissing thine illumined brow ! 

Still, while I praise thy beauty, 

Thy characters of lovely light, 
In friendship's tender duty, 

I counsel thee, dear youth, aright: 
Remember one true sentence — 

That "pearls should not be cast to swine,"- 
And never shall repentance 

Becloud one generous act of thine. 



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The attributes of God are all in all 
Of beauty and of glory: man admireth 

In creature-excellence despite tbe fall 
Just what reflected Deity inspireth: 

So cometh it, that Loveliness hath love, 

Truth doth enchant, and Mighty Force appal; 

And, as The Father is enthroned above, 
" Ancient of Days," — Antiquity requireth 
Man's homage for such nearness to his God : 
And so, when ancestry beneath the sod, 

And old old woods, and rooftree black with age 
To modern days reflect an ancient fame 

Enshrined in history's mediaeval page, 

These paint the gilded halo round a ISame. 



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Surging on in ceaseless shoals 
Thousands of immortal souls, 
Wave on wave of restless life 
Crested rough with selfish strife, — 
What a cavalcade comes nigh 
In this crowd of passers by ! 

O the sorrows, pains, and cares, — 

O the troubles, sins, and snares, — 

O the histories past belief 

Piled with wrong and soak'd in grief,- 

O the hidden woes that lie 

In this crowd of passers by! 



Watch the faces as they pass; 
"What a strangely changeful mass,- 
Business, pleasure, duty, sin, 
War without, or peace within, 
Glooms or gladdens every eye 
In this crowd of passers by. 

There, is vice and wanton youth,— 
There, contented worth and truth,- 
There, the sons of toil and skill,— 
And the thousands gather still 
— Ah ! poor monad, what am I 
In this crowd of passers by? 

Each of all the multitude 
Hath his evil and his good; 
Every one his hopes and fears, 
All alike their joys and tears; 
All must suffer, all must die 
In this crowd of passers by ! 



77 

Craving body, yearning soul, 
Each is to himself a whole ; 
And how little any cares 
How his fainting brother fares ; 
And how frequent is the sigh 
In this crowd of passers by! 

Yet as thus I move along 
Carried onward by the throng, 
In a solitude I seem 
Walking in a peopled dream, 
Where around me phantoms fly 
In this crowd of passers by. 

All alone I stand aside 
Listening to the human tide, 
Till my shuddering spirit hears 
Wailing down the gulph of years 
An exceeding bitter cry 
From that crowd of passers by. 



Silent*. 



Deab Xurse of Thought, calm chaos -brooding dove, 

Thee, Silence, well I love; 
Mother of Fancy, friend and sister mine, 

Silence, my heart is thine. 

Karer than Eloquence, and sweeter far 

Thy dulcet pauses are; 
Stronger than Music, charm she ne'er so well, 

Is, Silence, thy soft spell. 



79 

The rushing crystals throb about my brain, 
And thrill, and shoot again, — 

Their teeming imagery crowds my sphere, 
If Silence be but here. 

Bodily rest is Sleep, the soothing sleep, 

Spirit-rest, Silence deep ; 
O daily discord, cease, for mercy cease ! 

Break not this happy peace. 

The melodies within alone are heard, 
By their own stillness stirr'd ; 

O mute, and motionless, — death of strife, 
O precious lull in life ! 

Now know I how Pygmalion's spirit stern 

Could on a statue yearn, — 
The hush'd, the beautiful, the calmly fair, 

The marble Silence there! 



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Nothing lasts that is not good; 

Nothing stands that is not true : — 
What a thing misunderstood, 

What a thought kept out of view ! 
O pretences, shams, and cheats, 

You may strut your little day, — 
But Confusion swiftly meets 

And surely drives you all away! 






81 



Never yet was Truth assail' d, 

But the struggle gave it strength ; 
" Great is Truth and has prevailed " 

Always comes to pass at length: 
Never yet was Good attack'd, 

But the very foe that smote 
Whiten' d up what slander black'd? 

And abjured what malice wrote ! 

What is Good? — the pure and kind; 

What is Truth? — the wise and right; 
And, in Matter as in Mind, 

Both will live in death's despite : 
But the bad, the false, the base, 

Barely breathe one feverish hour, 
Dying out of every place 

Like a rootless nosegay flower. 



82 



How then comes it, that so oft 

Good men droop, and good things drown? 
How, that Lies are throned aloft, 

While so many Truths die down? 
— How? — For just a little while, 

And by just a herd of fools, 
Cheats are praised, and shams beguile, 

And sin is stout where Satan rules: 



Ay, — but look a little higher, 

Forward post your eager eye, 
You that gloriously aspire, 

And on God and Eight rely; 
Evil perishes — forsake it, — 

Falsehood dies — renounce its sway, — 
Eut the Good, for treasure take it, — 

And secure the True to-day! 






83 



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Give it only time enough, 

Every thing shall find its place; 
Every creature wins its race, 
Though the course be rough. 

All is not Mistake on earth; 

Providence fulfils its plan; 

And Creation, down to man, 

Justifies its birth. 
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84 

Folly builds her Babel tower, 

Where, — since "Wisdom well permits,- 
Grey Old Sin a Nimrod sits 
For his human hour: 

Let a little time have fled, 
And anon it topples down ; 
And we tear away the crown 
From that usurper's head ! 

All shall yet be right at last; 
Coming Day shall clear it up; 
And Creation's stirrup-cup 
Sweeten all the past. 

Good achieves its glorious ends; 
Soon for Evil's transient reign 
Spite of guilt and grief and pain 
Making rich amends. 



85 

Now, like crystallizing salts, 
All is seen confusion here; 
But right soon it shall appear 
Wisdom makes no faults : 

Atom to its atom flies, 
Every bevilPd angle fits, 
Till at length fair Order sits 
Enthroned on earth and skies. 



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God be thank'd that storms blow over, 

Gob be praised that faith endures ! 
Nature, universal lover, 

Ever works such timely cures; 
Wolf-like fears may still be howling, 

But they come not near us oft 
If we scare them in their prowling 

By the torch of hope aloft! 



87 

O the many dreads and troubles 

Wisdom shows us, — only shows ; 
To the brim the cauldron bubbles 

But it seldom overflows; 
To correct us and to try us 

Brood the black tempestuous skies, 
But those terrors come not nigh us 

If they find, or make us — wise. 



He, that is the Source and Sender, 

Knows how trouble chastens still; 
But Himself is our defender 

When that trouble works for ill: 
Thus, our faith may trust Him blindly 

Should He send us help or grief, 
For His Majesty deals kindly 

Both in trial and relief! 



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O Life ! — what a dream, 

What a tale that is told ! 
How strangely I seem 

On a sudden grown old ; 
"With records behind me 

Of years by the score, 
And all to remind me 

That they are no more ! 






89 

The friends of my prime 

Are dead, or grown grey, 
Or distanced by time, 

Or stolen away; 
And as my thought ranges 

O'er people and things, 
Perpetual changes 

My memory rings ! 

Ah ! days that are past, — 

How vague to mine eyes 
As perishing fast 

Recollections arise !. 
O pity and sorrow 

That feelings decay, 
And ev'ry To-morrow 

Out-clamours To-day! 



90 



But solemn in sooth 

Is Yesterday's page, — 
Alas ! for my youth, 

Alas ! for mine age, 
Alas ! is the sighing 

From heart and from head, 
For pleasures so flying 

And pleasures so fled ! 



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Good hath been born of Evil many times, 

As pearls and precious ambergris are grown — 
Fruits of disease, in pain and sickness sown ; 
Nations have won their liberty through crimes, 
And men true gain of losses : God alone, 
Unreachable upon His holy throne, 
Needeth not shade to illustrate His light, 

Nor less to foil His greatest: but for man 
The wrong must riot to awake the right, 
And patience grow of pain, as day of night, 

And wisdom end what woesome harm began; 
And think not to unravel in thy thought 

This mingled tissue, this mysterious plan, 
This alchemy of good through evil wrought. 



92 



Strange Jtttritartes. 



Vengeance, and jealousy, and wrath are Thine : 
Can these things be indeed, most loving Lord, 
Or have we spoilt the beauty of Thy word 

By names so dark for attributes divine? 

— Yet must true justice vindicate the right, 
And scatter wrong in well- avenging might, 

Chastising, not revenging: yet must Love 

Most fondly claim that every heart should beat 

As its own bliss for only God above : 

Yet must some moral fire, some holy heat, 
Pervade the Will that else were wilfulness : 

Those words are well ; He doth avenge the wrong, 
His love is jealous thee by love to bless, 

And sin shall rouse His wrath, though suffering long. 



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Poor Arctic ! once awhile my floating home 
Full of kind faces, my right royal yacht, 
Alas ! how swift and terrible a lot 

Has caught and whelm'd thee in the billowy foam. 

The gay saloon was ringing with its mirth, 
— Sudden Collision comes with frightful crash, 
And over all the riotous waters dash, 

Bushing from deck to deck, from berth to berth ! 

I will not coldly try to paint in rhyme 

Those thousand horrors; let the sobbing sea 
Chant its wild requiem over thine and thee, 

And darkness spread above its pall sublime. 



94 



Rather shall memory linger on the days 

When, girt with friends, I somewhile paced thy deck, 
Watching the distant iceberg's sparkling speck, 

Or the broad sun down-setting in a blaze : 

The nautilus would stretch its paper sail 
Cresting the swell to catch our eager eyes, 
Or petrels from the cradling trough would rise, 

Or the sharp fin of some black basking whale: 

And then, the merry games, and kindly looks 
Of pleasant shipmates, and the noonday stakes, 
How many knots an hour the good ship makes — 

Rousing the dozers from their chess and books : 

And then, — Woe, woe! that on such scenes as these 
The Viking, Death, should like a pirate burst, 
And drag them all, in gulphing waves immerst, 

Down to the charnel-caverns of the sea! 



95 



All, — but the dingers to some sinking boat 
Lost in the fog, or on that raft — Despair; 
One — only one of seventy ! — lingereth there, 

While buoy'd around him upturned corpses float! 

All, — but the Abdiel-captain of the crew, 
Who, sinking nobly with his sinking ship, 
Then battled back to life with dauntless lip, — 

A righteous Jonah, faithful found and true. 

All ? — yet a remnant — (of five hundred souls 
Hope breathes a tithe) — miraculously saved; 
Above the rest, where first that Viking raved, 

His mighty banner the dark Ocean rolls! 

O Life, and luxury, and hope, and health, 
And suddenly — Destruction ! who can know 
How huge the sum of man's and woman's woe 

When my poor Arctic sank with all her wealth? 



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Be true, be true! whate'er beside 
Of wit or wealth or rank be thine, 

Unless with simple truth allied, 
The gold that glitters in thy mine 

Is only dross, the brass of pride 
Or vainer tinsel, made to shine. 

Be true, be true ! the prize of earth 
From God alike with man forsooth, 

The real nobility of birth 
To age, maturity, or youth, 

The very crown of creature-worth, 
Is easy guileless open Truth. 



97 

Be true, be true ! to nerve your arm 
For any good ye wish to do ; 

To save yourselves from sin and harm, 
And win all honours old and new ; 

To work on hearts as with a charm, — - 
The maxim is, Be true, be true ! 

Be true, be true ! that easy prize 

So loveable to human view, 
So laudable beyond the skies, 

Alas ! is reached by very few — 
The simple ones, though more than wise, 

Whose motto is, Be true, be true! 



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Duty ! shorn of which the wisest 

And the best were little worth, 
How with dignity thou risest 

O'er the littleness of earth; 
How thou blessest each condition 

Shedding peace and glory round, 
Even binding hot Ambition 

In thy service to be found ! 



Duty, — though the lot be lowly, 

God's broad- arrow thou art seen 
Marking very trifles holy, 

And exalting what were mean ; 
In this thought the poor may revel 

That obeying Duty's word, 
Humblest want is on a level 

With my lady or my lord. 

Duty, — seen in lofty station 

As the brightest jewel there, 
Providence doth bless the nation 

Where thy badge its rulers bear; 
England ! God regards with favour 

Both thy Queen and People too, 
For that Duty's precious savour 

Still is found in all they do. 

Lore 

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globing on. 



In vain, — there is no respite and no rest, 
No flagging in our headlong reckless race ; 

In yain with clutching grasp and yearning breast 
We strive to check the steeds of Time and Space. 

All rushes on; no creature stops an horn; 

The babe, the boy, the man, the dotard — dies; 
Perpetual changes vex the wayside flower, 

And the great worlds careering through the skies. 



101 

Yet is it sad that Beauty scarce can bloom, 
Hardly can Wisdom drop one word of truth, 

Before the sage is humbled to the tomb, 

And wrinkles gather round the eyes of youth. 

Alas ! because it hardens us at heart, 

This constant moving- on, — this phantom scene 

Of daily hourly meetings soon to part, 
And made to be as they had never been. 

New hopes, new motives, all things ever new 
Expelling all things old, however dear, 

Uproot the mind from growing strong and true, 
And the poor heart in all its longings sear. 

A gloom, a solemn sadness, and a hope — 
A mighty hope, but mixed with bitter fear, 

All lie within this sad reflection's scope 

That nothing — nothing — hath continuance here. 



102 

We wake, — and yesterday is thrown behind 
To play to-day's half-masqueraded part; 

Energy cheering on the hopeful mind, 

But pale-faced memory holding back the heart. 

Alas ! I cannot read these thoughts aright ; 

I fain would say that we shall see once more 
Some resurrection of the visions bright 

That here, like mountain-mists, have swept us o'er: 

I fain, in this perpetual moving- on, 

Would see the shadowy type of stabler things; 
Old loves renew'd, old victories rewon, 

Old chords restruck upon the old heartstrings ! 

If otherwise, it were a waste, — a loss 

Of truth and beauty, happiness and love; 

But — there are all redemptions in the Cross, 

And more than Space and Time in Heaven above ! 



103 



AS BETWEEN MAN AND HIS BROTHER,. 



Man's inhumanity to Man ! 

Oh hideous tale to tell, — 
What cheek unblanch'd can calmly scan 

Those characters of hell? 
What pen, what poet, dares to paint 

The terrors of that strife, 
Wherein so many a martyr'd saint 

Has moan'd away his life? 



104 



O Roman friars, — Spanish priests, 

Ye wretched cruel men, 
More bloody than infuriate beasts 

Half-famish'd in their den, — 
How dreadful are the human woes 

Your secret vaults have seen, — 
Gob's patient vengeance only knows 

What horrors there have been! 



And, Slavery ! human nature's shame, 

The curse of human-kind, 
How hateful is thy very name 

To ear, and heart, and mind ! 
The sugar-mill, the cotton-field, 

The lash, the goad, the chain, — 
Alas ! how huge a crop they yield 

Of wickedness and pain ! 



105 



And, here at home, let childhood's shriek 

On coalpit echoes home, — 
And starving woman's hollow cheek 

In city streets forlorn, — 
And mean oppression's heavy hand 

On patient merit's head, — 
Ask everywhere throughout the land, 

— Whither has Mercy fled? 



Yet is there comfort: God ahove 

Long-suffering doth not sleep; 
He treasures up with tenderest love 

The tears of those who weep; 
Holy, and Merciful, and Strong, 

Be sure, His glorious Might 
Eor all oppression, pain, and wrong 

Will righteously requite ! 



106 



And there is comfort: victim soul, 

Go straight before that Judge; 
With pitying care to hear the whole 

His patience will not grudge; 
So, out of harm, and hate, and pain, 

If thou but kiss the rod, 
Thou shalt attain the golden gain 

Of Brotherhood with God ! 



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€twtlty : 

AS BETOKEN MAN AND HIS BEAST. 



Man's cruel baseness to his beast ! 

— Poor uncomplaining brute, 
Its wrongs are innocent at least, 

And all its sorrows mute : 
They cannot have deserved their woes, 

As these bad masters can; 
And evil is the lot of those 

Who serve the tyrant, Man. 



108 



I dare not let my fever'd thought 

Brood o'er the frightful page 
By human malice writ and wrought 

In every clime and age ! 
Alas ! the catalogue of crime 

Begun by cruel Cain 
Has made the swollen stream of Time 

One cataract of pain ! 



Lo ! surgery's philosophic knife, 

Too merciless to kill, 
Dissecting out the strings of life 

"With calm and horrid skill, — 
And bloody goads, — and wealing whips, 

And many a torture fell, 
Have wrung from every creature's lips 

That Earth to them is Hell! 



109 



Yea: dream not that the Good and Wise 

To these can be unjust; 
Nor, if not claimants for the skies, 

That all dissolve to dust: 
They have a spirit which survives 

This cauldron of unrest, 
And here though wretched in their lives, 

Elsewhere they shall be blest ! 

In the just Government and strong 

Of such a God as ours, 
Only for wickedness and wrong 

Perpetual Judgment lours: 
~No creature ever ran a race 

Of griefs not earn'd before, 
"Without some compensating grace 

Of happiness in store ! 



110 



Let this, then, comfort those who weep 

For Crime and Pity too; 
For if just judgment doth not sleep, 

~No more doth mercy true : 
The cruel Man, — lament his fate. 

For he can reach no Miss; — 
The tortured beast, — its future state 

Shall recompense for this. 



Ill 



gtatjpr's " fattens !" 



Bravo ! brave old Teuton heart, 
Noble " Marshal Forwards ! '■' 
Bravo ! every better part, — 
Nature, Providence, and Art, — 
Agrees in going forwards; 
If we gain, to gain the more, 
Pressing on to things before, 
Ever marching forwards; 



112 

If we lose, — by swift attack 
Soon to win those losses back 
By the rule of — Forwards ! 



Forwards ! it 's the way of life, 

Always urging forwards, — 
Be it peace, or be it strife, 
Stagnant-ripe, or tempest -rife, 

All is moving forwards ; 
Generations live and die, 
Stars are journeying on the sky 

By the law of forwards; 
Space and Time, and you, and I, 
And all — but Gob's Eternity — 

Tend for ever forwards ! 



So, good youth, go on and win ! 
Conquest lives in forwards; 



113 

Go, if once you well begin, 
Steering clear of self and sin, 

Forwards, ever forwards ! 
Never could the foe withstand 
Honest Blucher's one command, 

Forwards, soldiers ! forwards,- 
Never shall the foe be met 
Bold enough to front thee yet, 

If thy face is Forwards ! 



114 



Ssjmt. 



Higher, higher, ever higher, — 
Let thy watchword be " Aspire ! " 

ISoble Christian youth; 
"Whatsoe'er be God's behest, 
Try to do that duty best 

In the strength of Truth. 

Let a just Ambition fire 
Every motive and desire 

God and man to serve ; 
Man, with zeal and honour due, 
God, with gratitude most true, 

And all the spirit's nerve ! 



115 

Let not Doubt thine efforts tire, 
God will give what all require, — 

Raiment, home, and food ; 
And with these contented well, 
Bid thine aspirations swell 

To the Highest Good! 

From the perils deep and dire 
Of Temptation's sensual mire 

Keep thy chasten'cl feet ; 
Dread, and hate, and turn away 
From the lure that leads astray, 

Satan's pleasure- cheat ! 

And, while thus a self- denier, 
Stand the stalworth self-relier, — 

Bravely battling on, 
Though alone, — no soul alive 
Ever stoutly dared to strive 

But saw the battle won ! 
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116 

Though thy path be thorn and brier, 
Every step shall bring thee nigher 

To Creation's prize; 
With "Excelsior" on thy flag, 
Thou shalt tread the topmost crag, 

And soar into the skies. 

Higher, then, and always higher, — 
Let thy motto be " Aspire ! " 

"Whosoe'er thou be ; 
Holy liver ! happy dier ! 
Earth's poor best, and Heaven's quire, 

Are reserved for thee ! 



Ill 



f raiiitotM f mtg. 



Watch little providences : if indeed 

Or less there be, or greater, in the sight 
Of Him who governs all by day and night, 

And sees the forest hidden in the seed : 

Of all that happens take thou reverent heed, 
For seen in true Religion's happier light 

(Though not unknown of reason's placid creed) 
All things are order'd; all by orbits move, 
Having precursors, satellites, and signs, 
Whereby the mind not doubtfully divines 
What is the will of Him who rules above, 

And takes for guidance those paternal hints 
That all is well, that thou art led by Love, 

And in thy travel trackest old footprints. 



118 



%\t J«trfg |ottt|fttIness. 



As by an effort only, reckoning o'er 

The fleeting years, and lives of other men. 
How life creeps on apace, and why and when 

Its changing phases should affect us more, 
We guess and gather doubtingiy: for me, 
(Startled at times mine equals old to see) 

My heart is young as ever, fall of mirth 
And buoyancy, too light and fresh and free 

For dignities and pompous tricks of earth ; 
So hath it been till now, — so let it be, — 
And not grow grave : thrice happy is the man 

Whose spirit, feeling a Tithonic birth, 
Xever grows old, rejoices where it can, 

And cares no more for Time than it is worth. 



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fratol (faptim. 



Not in self-seeking cloth the Poet draw 

From his own wells, and analyse his heart ; 

All men in all men hear a kindred part, 
All spirits to all spirits are a law: 

Whatever any mind has seen or felt, 
That inner secret which in self he saw 

With genial utterance to his brother dealt 

Shall quicken him, and make his hardness melt, 
His passion thrill, his frozen feeling thaw, 

His solitude to brotherhood aspire: 
So then, accuse not as of mean design 

The generous fervour of poetic fire, — ■ 
Such frankness cheers, such sympathies refine, 

Such noble thoughts to nobler thoughts inspire. 



120 



Catariatefr Comfort. 



Ke collect, as well you may, 

(You that pine and brood in sorrow) 
If there's little luck to-day, 

More is left to come to-morrow; 
Every present grows to past 

Almost while the grumbler heeds it; 
But, for pleasure made to last, 

Look to where the future feeds it. 

Coming chances must be more, 

(Eeason will herself remind us,) 
And all prizes crowd before 

If the blanks are all behind us ; 
Therefore never go downcast, 

But let cares sit all the lighter, 
Since a dark and luckless past 

Argues all the future brighter. 



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f arate* fast 



Alas for trouble and care and sin, 

And bitterness, hate and strife ! 
That the heart grows cold and callous within, 
As stoned by the hail and stunn'd by the din 

Of the storm-driven desert of life. 

Alas! that the world is winning the game, — 

And — who then is counting the cost? 
O speed, — for fear, for glory, for shame, 
Let Satan be baulk'd of his murderous aim, 
For, the stake is — a soul to be lost ! 

Where stands Paradise, after the fall? 

Alas ! it has wither'd away, — 
The slime of the serpent is over us all, 
And Nature has veil'd with a funeral-pall 

Her beautiful face in decay ! 



122 



€\ttxfKhm. 

(in dactylic stanzas.) 



Lover of goodness, and friend to the beautiful, 

Ever go forth with a smile on thy cheek, 
KnoAving that God will prosper the dutiful, 

Gladden the holy, and honour the meek; 
Ever go on, though fortune be rigorous, 

Bearing as Providence wisely may will, 
Strong in good conscience, with energy vigorous, 

Building up good, and demolishing ill. 



123 

There is a spirit, that sadly and tearfully 

Goes to its duties, a slave to its tasks ; 
There is a spirit that stoutly and cheerfully 

Toils in the sunshine, and toils as it basks ; 
Both may he labouring, ripely and readily, 

Christians and husbandmen tilling the soil, 
But the one sings, while he labours so steadily, 

And the sad other sheds tears at his toil. 

Be of this wiser and better fraternity, 

Nursing contentedness still in thy breast; 
So shall thy heart, for time and eternity, 

Aehe though it must, be for ever at rest: 
Peace is the portion of hopeful audacity, 

Routing the worst and securing the best, 
And the keen vision of Christian sagacity 

Sees for us all that we all may be blest ! 



124 



(IN ALCAIC STANZAS.) 



Bulwark ot Ed gland, God -given Liberty ! 
Name much malign'd yet noble and glorious, 
How rarely the masses who claim thee 

Judge as they ought of the fools that maim thee ! 

No part hast thou with clamorous demagogues, 
Red revolution scares thee and scatters thee, 
And despots have stolen thy standard 

Only to render thee scorn'd and slander'd : 



125 

Still to enslave the credulous multitude 
Is their intent in utter effrontery ; 
O treason, O shame, and O wonder. 
That the one tramples the many under ! 

Man, when his Maker made him and fashion'd him, 
Man stood as free as Mercy could order it, — 
Free, saving Eeligion in season, 

Saving the bridle and bit of Eeason. 

And when, as now, the Fall and its accidents 
Drove him from God to human society, 
Still Eeason, Eeligion, and Frankness 

Stand as the pruners of Freedom's rankness : 

Eeason, Eeligion, counsel and sanctify 
Unto good order governing ministers, 
And Frankness gives up to his brother 
Much of his own, for the sake of other. 



126 

Freeman ! thy neighbour also has liberties ; 
This may subtract his rights from thy heritage, — 
But Freedom without moderations 

Were but the licence of pirate nations. 

England ! in thee shines Liberty's excellence ; 
We are as free as serves for humanity, 
Freespoken, freejudging, freeacting, 
Nobody spying, and none exacting. 

We love the Queen, and guard her with loyalty, 
She loves the People, ruling us faithfully, 
And those who amongst us are wiser 
Counsel her, each as a free adviser. 

Thus we reform whate'er is iniquitous, 

Thus we remove whatever is obsolete, 

Yet always resolve to deal fairly 

Even with those who deserve it rarely: 



127 

Thus in the light of rational liberty 
Each of us walks a patriot Englishman — 
Courageous, but boasting it never; 
Moderate, honest, and patient ever. 

And we can love our brethren in slavery, 

Giving them all, with prodigal sympathy, 

Our prayers, our blood, our treasure — 

All we can give without stint or measure : 

And we can hate the base and tyrannical, 
Vowing to crush oppression and cruelty — 
And sharing with peoples and races 
All Christianity's gifts and graces. 

England the free is Europe's deliverer, 
Standing with France, co-warders of Liberty; 
And Englishmen know how to use it, — 
Englishmen only will not abuse it ! 



128 



(m SAPPHIC STANZAS.) 



Never went man courageously to dangers, 
Fear and his constant spirit being strangers, 
But, while he faced his enemies and hew'd them, 
Soon he subdued them : 

As he goes onward, perils seem to scatter, 
Mind ever shows the conqueror of matter ; 
Even the mountain crags that toppled o'er him 
Open before him; 



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Even the torrents, riotously wrathful, 
Are to his footsteps fordable and pathful; 
Even the prowlers, in the desert roaming, 
Fly at his coming. 

O man of faith, of energy, and boldness, — 
Onward ! in spite of darkness and of coldness, — 
Forward ! for Conquest with triumphal pleasance 
Waits for thy presence: 

Never, on Eight and Providence relying, 
FaiPd of Success, while duteously trying, 
He, who resolves and wrestles like a Roman, 
Yielding to no man ! 



130 



9m In* 



What a gloom and what a chill 

Hang about old hannts of ours, — 
"Where, at childhood's wayward will, 

Long ago we gathered flowers ; 
Where, in youth's romantic prime, 

Long ago we met and parted, 
In the olden golden time 

When we went so eager-hearted ! 

Ah ! but in those long agoes, 

With their dreamy dear old places 
And forgotten joys and woes 

And their unforgotten faces, 
How much sorrow ever hides, 

Leaving what we loved behind us; 
While how swift our life- dream glides 

These sad long agoes remind us ! 



131 



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Weep, relentless eye of Nature ! 

Drop some pity on the soil; 
Every plant and every creature 

Droops and faints in dusty toil: 
Mother earth with bosom burning 

Craves and pants athirst for rain; 
Night and day her mighty yearning 

Heaves to Heaven in silent pain ! 
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132 

0, how gratefully and dearly 

"Will Creation drink it up, 
When to all his children cheerly 

God shall give that happy cup: 
When the cattle and the flowers 

Yet shall raise their drooping heads, 
And, refreshed by precious showers, 

Lie down joyful in their beds. 

Graciously then, God the Giver, 

Send that milk of mercy round, — 
Let kind Heaven's luscious river 

Bathe this dry and gaping ground; 
Melt the furrows with its sluices, — 

Make our wilted uplands laugh, — 
And of all Earth's generous juices 

Now let all her creatures quaff ! 



133 



fit » jTASt 

7%* 2htk of April, 1854. 



Cruel, cutting, killing frost ! 
Hope destroy' ol and labour lost, 
Earth dishearten' d, man dismay'd, 
Joy extinguish'd, life decay'd ! 
All the early sprouts cut down, — 
All the blossoms burnt and brown,- 
Every green and tender shoot 
Black and rotted to its root, — ■ 



134 

Every modest opening leaf 
Kudely made to pine in grief, — 
Every bud of promise nipt, 
And Nature's every feather elipt ! 

Woe! for April skies were here, 
Flush'd with warmth and summer eheer,- 
April sun and April shower 
Coaxing bud and leaf and flower, 
Till the very fig had dared 
To hope in pity to be spared. 
But, one night, one bitter night, 
Elasted all with angry spite, — 
SeaPd the breasts of Nature up, — 
Froze with hate her loving cup, — 
Dash'd its honied milk with gall, 
And in sheer envy ruin'd all ! 



135 



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No hate, no envy; all was right; 
In mercy came that bitter night, — 
In mercy shear'd the fruit away, 
Blasting the blossoms on the spray ; 
For if, in aftertimes like these 
Of sore and terrible disease, 
A heavy crop of luscious fruits 
Had hung upon those frozen shoots, 
Doubtless, the reaper Death had reap'd 
A heavier crop of corpses heap'd ! 
O Man, — a wiser Head than thine, 
And kinder than thy thoughts divine, 
("While for all weightier things He cares 
Or watches how a sparrow fares,) 
In secret wisdom foreordains 
Even these trifles, — frosts and rains. 



136 



%m$q gmtfr. 



All on a happy summer's day 

When the air is warm and still, 
And thundery clouds are louring gray 
Oyer the landscape green and g*ay 
Around St. Martha's hill, — 



How pleasant it is, with a cheerful friend 

Of beautiful Nature fond, 
Across the fields our ways to wend, 
And here the calm sweet horns to spend 

Fishing at Tangley Pond. 



137 

I love the tapering rod to wield, 

And cast the sensitive float, 
Till down it runs with the line outreePd 
And a fierce old pike, still scorning to yield, 

Flounders about in the boat : 



I love the angle, — to watch and wait 
For the perch so subtle and still, 

Till deep in his hole he has gorged the bait, 

And gluttony fixes a tyrant's fate 
With a good gimp-hook in his gill: 

I love the quiet,— the lull from care, — 

The lake, all clear and calm, — 
The flowering reeds, and the wild fowl there,— 
The trees asleep in the sultry air, 

And all things breathing balm. 



138 

Old Tangley Pond, — niy boyhood's haunt, 

My manhood's holiday rest, — 
Let any that will my fondness taunt, 
And mock while thus thy praise I chaunt, 
Lull'd on thy tranquil breast. 



Oh, yes, — there is peace and quietness here 

If nowhere found beyond; 
The way one's spirit to soothe and cheer 
Is — angle awhile, in the prime of the year, 

At dear old Tangley Pond. 



139 



mat. 



How often to lie still is to be wise, — 

How many times is Patience as a charm 
That wins a gracious blessing from the skies 
Eicher than all on Labour's bustling farm, — 
How often to do more is to do harm ! 
So, when thy seeds are wedded to the soil, 
And thou hast well done duty, and the lot 
Is cast into the lap, consider not 
How next to make all speed by thought and toil,- 
But rather wait ; the power of faith is there, — 

Faith that achieves all conquest, takes all spoil, — 
Faith, the great reaper of the crop of pray'r ; 
In faith be still; lest unbelieving care 
By overstriving all good efforts foil. 



140 



Once more a silent solitary spot, 

Chobham, — already those thy glories seem 
Half-lost to memory, like a fading dream 
Of martial sights and sounds, which now are not : 
The tents, array'd so trim, that used to teem 
With merry humours, all are swept away; 
Where is the Kifleman, — the kilted Scot, — 

The helm'd Life-guardsman, — and the Lancer gay? 
Where are the Guns, that thunder' d thick and hot 

Galloping furiously through the fray? 
All, all are gone : and where with stirring tramp 

The troops defiling proudly wont to pass, 
Nothing is seen to cheer this rugged swamp 

But spotted sundews and wild cotton-grass ! 



141 



$pt\ttii. 



A day for patriot thoughts of honest pride, 

A day for praise to Heaven, as is most meet; 
When England pours upon the peaceful tide 
Her willing thousands, thronging far and wide 
Our Ocean- Queen in joyfulness to greet: 
Lo ! how majestic stands the giant Fleet 
Eohed in white thunderclouds, that roll away 
Amid these deafening clamours, to display 
The black- embattled hulls, and overhead 
Their taper spars, or glittering canvas spread : 
While, all around, on this glad holiday, 

The whitewing'd yachts, like sea-birds, flit about, 
And crowded steamers, drest in pennons gay, 
Cheer as they pass, and reel beneath the shout. 



142 



{St. George's, Doncaster.) 



O wheck of many good and precious things, 
O thousand glories shatter'd to the ground ! 

O Kuin, — where Destruction's fiery wings 

Have flapp'd, and scorch'd, and ravaged all around ! 

O Providence, — whose deep determinings 

No wisdom can defeat, no thought can sound, — 

Alas ! how shall we well and wisely search 

The Mind of God in this — a ruin'd church? 



143 



For lo, the loss ! Religion's beauteous fane, 
For eight long centuries her holy home, 

Where sacred story stain' d each pictured pane, 
And Learning archived many a rare old tome,- 

Where Gothic sculpture, lofty, pure, and plain, 
Stood a protesting trophy won from Eome, — 

All burnt, all blasted ! — Who may read aright 

The will of Heav'n in this unholy sight? 



Ye shall discern it, though your eyes be dim, 
If teachably and humbly still ye search: — 

God is a spirit ; those who worship Him 
Make not a mediate idol of His Church; 

Mounting on eagle wings of cherubim, 

They linger not to deck the temple-porch, — 

But serving One whose temple is all space, 

They seek Him always and in every place ! 



144 



Yet, must we note the low estate of Man, 
And help on earth his earthly nature still ; 

And, it is wise and duteous, where we can, 
To counteract hy good permitted ill ; 

And, if we work eternal Mercy's plan, 

We glorify our God through man's free will ; 

And He that bade us worship Him aright 

Said, Make My court and service your delight. 

Therefore, with energy and zeal discreet, 
Hasten to raise this holy house again; 

With decent splendour, as is right and meet, 
Give God once more His consecrated fane : 

He waits in grace to bless your willing feet, 
And those who serve Him, never serve in vain: 

So bring your offerings, and your alms outpour, 

And rear St. George for God and Man once more ! 



145 



got t\t inters* |rame-fim&. 



Madeira ! fair haven of plenty and health, 
Where luxury smiles on the vintage of wealth, 
Where mountain and glen in the midst of the seas 
Breathe Eden's own halm on the cheek of Disease, 
Where nature's most beautiful pastoral scene, 
With rock-built sublimity toppling between, 
And rural contentment, and music, and mirth, 
Make thee the bright gem, the oasis of Earth, — 
Alas, for the change! that a bane and a blight 
Hath wither'd thy beauty, and darken'd thy light,— 
Alas! for the tropical breezes that waft 
The moans of despair from thy death-stricken raft- 
Alas ! for the sunsets of glory that glow 
On famishing vineyards and hovels of woe, — 
Alas ! for the vial of judgment outpour'd 
Madeira, on thee, from the hand of the Lord ! 

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146 

Of judgment, — and mercy ! — Our Father and God 

Not lightly nor gladly afflicts with His rod: 

And well is He pleased, if His children make speed 

To comfort the hearts whom He chastens with need; 

And well is He glorified still in His gifts 

When affluent bounty the fallen uplifts ! 

Then hasten, ye Kich, — whom Madeira lang syne 

Hath often made glad with her generous wine, — 

And chiefly ye fathers and lovers, sore tried 

By the fast fading forms of some daughter or bride 

Whom genial Madeira, by delicate stealth, 

Hath gently suffused with the roses of health, — 

O hasten to help her! — speed ye to bless 

With liberal mercy the sons of distress; 

For the Land where your memory lingers in pray'r, 

Is stricken with famine, and death, and despair! 



147 



intern. 



Judge not the sensitive : if thou hast blamed, 
Think how a thousand influences tell, 
With strong enchantment acting like a spell, 
Upon that spirit all too finely framed: 

Antagonisms, and slights, and vulgar things, 
And all whatever else should make ashamed 
Of mean or vain, from these as nettle-stings 
Shrinks back within itself the feeling mind ; 
What thou hast counted cold fastidious pride 
Is to warm graces tenderly allied, 
Indignant wrath with holy pain combined ; 
And spirit-nerves alike with nerves of sense, 
To some brute natures worthily denied, 
In others thrill with energies intense. 
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148 



lapis*. 



Let me not now ungenerously condemn 
Those few good deeds on impulse, — half unwise 
And scarce approved hy reason's colder eyes; 
I will not blame, nor weakly blush for them: 
The feelings and the actions then stood right: 

And if regret for half a moment sighs 
That worldly wisdom with its keener sight 
Had order'd matters so and so, my heart 
Still in its fervour loves a warmer part 

Than Prudence wots of; while my faithful mind, 
Heart's husband, also praises her for this; 
And on our conscience little load I find 
If sometimes we have help'd another's bliss 
At some small cost of selfish loss behind. 



149 



$ J&rojf fat PMIMs. 



Hurrah for the Rifle !— In days long ago 

Our fathers were fear'd for the bill and the bow, 

And Edwards and Harrys in battles of old 

Were proud of their archers so burly and bold : 

While Agincourt, Cressy, and Poictiers long since, 

With great John of Gaunt, and the gallant Black Prince, 

Tell out from old pages of history still 

What Englishmen did with the bow and the bill. 

Hurrah for the Rifle ! — When England requires, 
She still shall be proud of the sons of our sires; 
And rifle and bayonet then shall do more 
Than ever did billhook or longbow of yore; 
Erom hedgerow and coppice and cottage and farm 
The foreigner's welcome, God wot! shall be warm, 
And the crack of the rifle shall hint to the foe 
How terrible once was the twang of the bow. 



150 



%\t MWtt €mMfix. 



Away to the War has the Soldier departed, 

And with him hoth Husband and Father are gone, — 
His children, half-orphans, are left broken-hearted, 

His half- widow' d wife remains weeping alone ! 
He goes like a Soldier — courageously, cheerly 

To fight for the Eight at his country's command, 
But leaves with a pang lest those he loves dearly 

Should pine, in his absence, for "Want in the land ! 



151 



when in his dreams those little ones prattle, 

Let him not wake with the dread on his mind 
That while he is fighting or dying in battle 

The mother and babes may be starving behind ! 
And when at the bivouac stirring the embers 

He chats with his mates of the deeds of the day, 
Let him feel glad, as with thanks he remembers 

That charity blesses his home far away ! 

A loaf for the day, and a crust for the morrow, 

And school for his children, and work for his wife, 
Enough, to be clear of affliction and sorrow 

And able to stand in the battle of life, — 
Give this to your Soldier, to comfort and shield him 

In those who at home are the Wanderer's care, 
And all that in kindliness Here you may yield him 

Be sure he'll repay you in gallantry There ! 



152 



f |[* towras gtag*. 



Wounded soldiers ! lying weak, 

Sick, or shot, or gash'd by swords, 
Listen ! for your Queen doth speak, 

Hearken to her gracious words ! 
From her soul of courage calm, 

Earnestly those words distil, 
Dropping like a precious balm, 

Every heart to cheer and thrill. 



153 

" Tell each wounded man apart, 

" As they he in ghastly groups, 
" Tell them how our inmost heart 

" Feels for our heloved troops : 
" Noble fellows ! say from us, 

"No one yearns on such a scene 
"With more sympathy than thus 

" Yearns their own admiring Queen. 

" Tell the men, my wounded sons, 

" Simple privates in the ranks, 
" That to those heroic ones, 

" Queen and Prince have sent their thanks : 
" Still we think of them in love, 

" Praying for them day and night, 
" And our trust is strong ahove, 

"For such Champions of the Eight." 



154 



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Guilty despot, God -forsaken, 
And by Judgment overtaken, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Hypocrite, that didst dissemble, 
Now in abject terror tremble, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 

Hark ! the dogs of war are gather'd, 
Bear! to bait thee, closely tether'd, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Even Turkey's angry legions 
Hunt thee up to thine own regions, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 



155 

Meaning mischief, we will do it, 
Caitiff, — deeply shalt thou rue it, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
North and South our volley' d thunder 
Shall thy carcase tear in sunder, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 

France with tiger-fury hounds thee, 
England's lion-might surrounds thee, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Sworn to havoc without pity, 
Fleets and forts and field and city, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 

Not that we would kill the People, 
But, in sparing street and steeple, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
We will blow each fort and palace 
To the bourn of Meshech's malice, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 



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Cronstadt shall be crush' d and batter'd, 
As Sebastopol is shatter'd, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Meshech, Kosh, and Tubal — humbled, 
To destruction shall be crumbled, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 

We will raise the ghost of Poland, 
Thine unlaid and fearful Poeland, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
We will arm the Fins and Tartars, 
And Siberia's million martyrs, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 

Moscow shall be curst as Edom 
When we give thy serfs their freedom, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Petersburg shall be as Babel 
When they find thy strength a fable, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 



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Think not kingcraft now can spare thee, 
Nicholas, for doom prepare thee, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
No indulgent statesman's finger 
Can avert what shall not linger, 

Woe, woe to thee! 

O thou tyrant, dread tins hour, 
When the People in its power 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
To the dust shall trample gladly 
Thee, that durst to rule so madly, 

Woe, woe to thee! 

Greatest criminal, that ever 

Roused mankind their yokes to sever, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Never more shall peace or slumber 
Soothe thy moments, few in number, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 



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Conscience, with such sin to whelm it, 
Shall be hell in crown and helmet, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Fear, thy sleepless pillow scaring, 
Shall bemock thy guilty daring, — 

"Woe, woe to thee ! 



All men's strength, in wrath uprisen, 
Shall stand round thee like a prison, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
All men's wrath shall tread thee under 
Hated, hoof'd, and torn asunder, 

Woe, woe to thee ! 



Dead ! — How sudden was thy sentence, 
Mercy-past, as past repentance, 

(Woe, woe to thee, — ) 
Dead ! — sinner unforgiven, 
Dragg'd before the bar of Heaven, — 

Woe, woe to thee ! 



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If ever saint obey'd the great command, 
Leave all and follow Me; if ever heart 
Acted in love the high and holy part 

Of good Samaritan from land to land, — 

That praise is thine, Lady! and thou art 
Truly the crown of Christian womanhood, 

With tender eye and ministering hand 
Going about like Jesus doing good 
Among the sick and dying: what a scene 

Of wounds and writhing pain and hideous throes 
For thee to dwell in,— thou martyr- Queen, 

Calm dove of peace amid war's vulture woes, 
Soothing their fury by thy looks serene 

And lulling agony to sweet repose! 



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Where will it end? — Demolish what we may 
Of forts and fleets and hecatombs of lives, 
Nothing is done, while Tyranny survives 

A Titan thrown but to renew the fray : 

Scatheless in hostile victory's proudest day 
Far off the solitary despot thrives; 

And, ere we touch him, we must wade knee- deep 
Through seas of servile but unguilty blood, 

And, while our cannons to destruction sweep 
Host after host of that serf-multitude, 
He in his malachite and golden pride 

Will neither heed home-woes nor foreign might, 
But madly wilful thus will hide aside, 

And watch secure the struggling millions fight. 



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One man, — a despot ruthless and insane, 

Counted a god by his barbarian hordes, 
One man, whose lustful will was sworn to gain 

The whole world's throne through their fanatic swords, 

He, monarch of their wills and deeds and words, 
Evil, ambitious, pamper'd, proud, and vain, 

Forced the fierce contest: truly, is this war 

A war of principles ; for England fights, 
Champion of freedom, with a tyrant Czar, 

Protesting manfully for all men's rights 
Against their bad enslaver: let kings reign 

As God's chief servants for His people's good ; 
But, if both God and Man their hearts disdain, 

They are rejected, — let them be withstood. 

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A righteous retribution, stern and swift, 

A world-upstirring and portentous thing ! 
The Lord hath stricken thee, thou wicked King, — 
Whose mad ambition dared usurp thy gift 

Of government, to bind upon thy brow 
An universal crown; who durst uplift 

Thy power, all laws and liberties to bring 
Beneath imperial serfdom : yet, as now 
Dead, — foil'd and scorn'd and shamed, — how mean art thoi 
O Mother England, let the fostering wing 
Of Heaven be still thy buckler: other fears 
And other foes rise dimly on the sight ; 

For all the friendliness that now appears 
Stand well on guard, and God defend the right ! 



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O God ! our Refuge and Defence, 

Most just, and merciful, and strong, 
By Whose eternal Providence 

The right is help'd against the wrong, 
O Lord ! our fathers 9 Friend of old, 

Their children's only Succour now; 
In grace forgivingly hehold 

Thy people who before Thee bow ! 

Great Judge of all in all the earth, 
True Source of liberties and laws, 
Thou seest that we now go forth 

To combat in a righteous cause: 
Duty commands our Nation's way 

Eeluctant to the battle-field, 
And unto Thee we pray this day 
To be for us both sword and shield ! 
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Truly, we have deserved Thy wrath, — 

For many sins it were most meet ; 
Yet, let us never tread the path 

Of Thy correction in defeat: 
Forgive, and speed us; for we stand 

Thy combatants for truth and right; 
And trust to see Thy guardian hand 

Advance our standards in the fight ! 

We ask no glory,- — but to bless, 

By making wrongful wars to cease ; 
We seek no conquest, — but success 

In leading men to live at peace : 
We trust not in our ships or swords, 

But in Thy Name, Guard and Guide, 
Because the battle is the Lord's, — 

And God is seen on Duty's side ! 



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Be gracious, Lobd, to us 

Who seek Thy face this day, 

And in the time of trouhle thus 
To Thee devoutly pray. 

Forgive all evil past, 

And grant our Nation grace 
To live to Thee, and pray, and fast, 

And run the Christian race. 

With alms for those in need 
We come and trust on Thee, 

That Thou wilt give us power to speed 
The Eight by land and sea. 



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From those who hate us now 

All help and safety send; 
Be Thou our rock, our champion Thou, 

Our Queen- and-People's Friend ! 

Unwillingly we draw 

The just avenging sword, 
And in the name of Right and Law 

Implore Thy blessing, Lord ! 

We strove for peace in vain, 

And Mesech chose the fight; 
Therefore, O Thou, by Whom kings reign,- 

Our God ! Defend the Right. 



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Give thanks, happy Nation ! for Mercy rejoices 
O'er Judgment to triumph and fill us with food : 

Be glad, O ye People ! and lift up your voices 
To Him who is ever the Giver of good. 

What thanks shall we render? — Ah, sinful and earthy, 
The praises we bring are too few and too cold, — 

Eedeemer ! make Thou this poor offering worthy, 
And pour out Thy Spirit on us, as of old. 



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For truly to Thee our fervent desire 

Would go forth in grateful acknowledgment here; 
But only Thy heart- stirring grace can inspire 

The love that is life and that casteth out fear. 

Ah ! well may we fear Thee, — whose judgments are sounding 
In thunders of wrath and in trumpets of woe ; 

And well may we love Thee, — whose mercies abounding 
In rivers of peace and prosperity flow. 

Yet let us not boast, like a Dives possessing 
Garners of wheat with enough and to spare; 

But humbly and thankfully taking the blessing 
Praise the good Giver, and seek Him in pray'r ! 



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Dear heart of old England ! be glad and rejoice 
For blessed abundance on basket and store, — 

And raise the thanksgiving with national voice 
To Him, by whose bounty we live evermore. 

While Judgment, in pestilence, famine and sword, 
Might well have rebuked us for folly and sin, 

Thy Mercy hath triumph'd, and fed us, good Lord ! 
With plenty and health and contentment within. 



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Too truly, the hurricane thunders of war 

Are heard in the distance and soon shall increase, 

But while the storm threatens and rages afar 
Our dwellings are safe in the blessing of peace : 

Too truly, the angel of death in the air 

Is hovering, and scarcely withholdeth his hand, 

But, King of that Angel ! in pity forbear, 
Bemember Araunah, and favour the land ! 

O Nation ! what People beside is so blest ? 

What People so thankful and holy should be? 
O Father and Shepherd ! who givest us rest, 

Thy children and sheep of Thy pasture are we. 

Then, Praise be to God, for the fruits of the field, 
This harvest of gold in the lap of the soil, 

This grateful return Earth hasteth to yield 
By Heaven's own blessing on dutiful toil ! 



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I do believe it, England ! God hath blest thee 
With all prosperities of heaven and earth 
(As man may speak — ) according to thy worth : 
I do believe, when Duty's power possest thee 
Unselfishly, yea sadly, to go forth 
And bind that proud Barbarian of the North, 
God's love went too, and as His child carest thee: 
For, all the fears and perils that opprest thee, 
Behold them scatter 'd in the smile of Heaven ! 

Foes are made friends ; where famine gauntly glared 
Plenty and peace and happiness are given ; 

Even the pestilence hath stopp'd and spared 
Our chasten'd homes, — though chasten'd not destroyed, 
And rich in good with thanks to be enjoy 'd ! 



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Ye Eulers in the Nation, ye Princes of our State, 

"WTio in your starry orbits shine the Great among the 

great — 
A word unto your mightiness, a word for truth and good, 
That may not lightly be ignored, nor harmlessly with- 
stood. 

We are a kindly People, a just and generous Eace, 
Slow to condemn, but swift to love, and frank in heart 

and face ; 
With honest sense of rio'ht and wrono;, and wills to love 

or hate 
According to your works and words the Great among the 

great. 



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We honour Duty in high place, nor less because high- 
born, — 
But loathe official insolence, and answer scorn with scorn ; 
We pay to rank all homage due, — but claim of it in sooth 
Humility, and courtesy, and kindliness, and truth. 

To warmth we instantly respond, and render heart for 

heart, 
Kejoicing on the weaker side, and in the better part, — 
But frigid harshness dries us up, and half our generous 

soul 
Is frozen by a cold neglect or insolent control ! 

O Bulers ! meet us heartily, as we would come to you ; 
We own your individual worth as men both good and 

true, — 
But let not Office stand a gulph of icy distance thus 
(The Queen and People are not so !) between yourselves 

and us. 



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Quell not our friendliness to you by cold high-breeding's 

laws, 
Check not our English ardour in the patriotic cause ; 
Be gracious, if you must refuse, — but be not too afraid 
Of graciously accepting those who come to proffer aid. 

Many there be who offer' d well, but ill were spurn' d away, 
And many more would, but for such, have help'd from 

day to day ; 
But on their generous spirits, like an avalanche of snow 
Was flung, with dreary due delay, the cold official No ! 

Be wiser, Eulers ! we have hearts, and you may have 

them too ; 
You might keep England if you would right well in tune 

with you ; 
But not by distance, not by coldness ; frank and generous 

ways 
Alone can win for you from us all honour, love, andpraise ! 



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We thank thee, gracious Neighbour ! we thank thee, 

glorious France ! 
We praise the Greatness that made haste to seize that 

golden chance, 
The chance of taking vengeance, as of old je swore to do, 
And well redeem' d at Inkermann, — avenging Waterloo ! 

this indeed is chivalry, returning good for ill 

(Though we — ye know it — in those days did only duty 

still,—) 
This is the way to be revenged, the noblest and most true, 
Eeturning Trance's Inkermann for England's Waterloo ! 

Our gallant guards, not overmatch'd, though barely one 

to ten, 
Could fight and die, but could not fly, — were demigods, 

not men, — 



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From foggy dawn to noon they fought that furious Eussian 

crew, 
Till France avenged at Inkermann her rival's Waterloo ! 

Avenged! — in coarse and common hate? by planting blow 

for blow? 
Avenged ! — in humbling Englishmen ? — No ! grateful 

England, No ! 
They heap'd the coals of vengeance as only Christians can, 
And for our old-time Waterloo they gave us Inkermann ! 

So then, O brothers reconciled for ever and a day, 
We own that you have conquer 'd us, and in the grandest way ; 
Our patriot fathers made you bleed at Waterloo's red van, 
But you more nobly bled for us, their sons, at Inkermann ! 

Yes ! this is glory, this is conquest, this is fame indeed ; 
For you henceforth Old England's heart is vow'd to fight 

and bleed, — 
Not front to front, like Waterloo, — but on the better plan 
Of side by side, as when you bled for us at Inkermann ! 



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Enough, enough of honours pour'd profusely on the Great ; 
Enough of stars and titles for the menials of the State ; 
A hetter brighter honour now must English heralds find, 
An Order for the holy heart and for the mighty mind ! 

Our worthies lack a kindly smile for social good well-done, 
A smile from Britain's gracious Queen on each best 

British son, — 
Appreciation's blessed badge, so precious in their eyes, 
Sufficing patient merit with its spiritual prize. 



Our worthies,— what a brilliant band ! not even friendly 

France 
To make her Legion of the Good had such a noble chance ; 
Our worthies, — need we name their names, — who live in 

lip and pen, 
Who live upon the nation's heart, and in the mouths of men? 

O Queen, who also livest there, regard them in thy love ! 
Eeward them as the type of Him who reigneth from above, — 
Let honour issuing from the throne on excellence descend, 
And make true worth in every rank thy helper and thy 
friend ! 

Look up and clown the land, Queen! — there is no lack 

of good 
So that thou seek it not in men of place-and-party brood ; 
Look up and down the land and search for goodness 

everywhere, 
And where thou findest honest merit,— give thine honours 

there ! 



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Shed forth encouragement for good, and comfort sterling 

worth 
In manhood, and in womanhood, in all the salt of earth, — 
In those who for themselves have earn'd a right to honour's 

place, 
Nor only owe to nobler sires the titles some disgrace. 

Open the ranks ; let in the best, the worthiest of the land, 
Who, though unhackney'd in debate, are pure in heart 

and hand ! 
Open the ranks ! no longer let an oligarchy rule, — 
Lest under their disloyal sway the Nation's love grow cool ! 

Open the ranks ! the People, thy true People, gracious 

Queen ! 
Are ever ranged on Order's side, and found in Duty's scene ; 
Let Honour then on such from Thee in copious torrent flow, 
And Gob will bless Thee from above, as Man shall bless 

below ! 

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That I have loved my Saviour as I ought, 

I dare not say; but I can call Him Lord, 

The man Christ Jesus and the God the Word, — 

And worship Him in will and deed and thought 

With my poor best and truest; where He leads 

(As from mine infant years I have been taught) 
Thither I follow through the crowd of creeds, 
And have not swerved nor changed: without His power 
I cannot stand, could not have stood, one hour; 

But, with His help, I yet shall go straight on 
Believing, and obeying, doing good, 

Truthtelling, yet intolerant to none, 

Giving both God and man my gratitude 

For all I have or hope, through Christ the Son. 



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O spirits made perfect ! How dear will ye be 
In the bright happy world, where affections are free, 
Unfetter'd from all the heart-slavery here, 
Unwarp'd by the world in its love or its fear, 
Uncheck'd in their impulses — misunderstood, 
UnchilPd in their warmth, and all glowing for good. 
glorious and glad ! when in fulness and power 
The soul shall expand like an amaranth flower, 
And open her beauties for every eye, 
And shed out her fragrance on all that come nigh, 
And freely fly forth on the wings of a dove, 
And float in a rapture of purified love ! 



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— There, soon in the garments of praise shall I see 

The spirits that here have been dearest to me, 

Those beautiful darlings, by memory shrined 

In the roots of the heart and the stem of the mind, 

On the magical leaves of affection imprest 

And burst into blossom, as spirits made blest ! 

How happy hereafter in union most sweet 

Such cherish' d and glorified dear ones to meet ! 

And here, to look forward to those gone before 

In the joy and the hope of such meeting once more ! 

And now, to look upward and feel without fear 

That these are His messengers helping us here ! 



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My pretty one beneath the sod, 

My pretty one beyond the sky, 
My darling gone to be with God, 

And nevermore to moan or die, — 
My Alice ! fast asleep in flowers 

Beneath the shadow of the Cross, 
How blest is such a loss as ours 

When thou art gainer by that loss ! 



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Beside the now deserted nave 

Of dear old ivied Albury Church, 
Beside our own ancestral grave, 

Beside the desecrated porch, — 
Our pretty darling lies beneath 

Her matted quilt of flow'rets fan, 
And at her head, as blessing death, 

The cross of Jesus watches there. 

Sweet spirit, pure and meek and mild, 

O patient martyr gone to bliss, 
I love thee, my most precious child, 

Too deeply to repine at this : 
I long indeed to see those eyes, 

And kiss, then beauty o'er and o'er, 
But oh! I see thee in the skies, 

And there shall kiss them evermore. 



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Beautiful Alice, serene little saint, 

My treasure! — O better than mine, — 
What mind can imagine, or eloquence paint 

Thy gladness and glory divine? 
A bright happy spirit, made perfect and free, 

On whom The Good Jesus hath smiled, 
This ecstasy now hath beatified thee, 

My blessed and beautiful child ! 



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Ah ! fairest, and purest, and dearest of all, 

Sweet babe of two years and a half, 
How painful a pleasure it is to recal 

The ring of thy once merry laugh; 
How touching to dream of that loved little face 

With its martyr- expression of pain, 
And the tender blue eyes, where angelical grace 

Shone patiently smiling again ! 



What vision was ever more piteous than this, — 

To watch her, so wan and so weak, 
With white little hands reaching up for a kiss 

When faint and unable to speak ; 
What memory ever so joyous, — that oft 

Those dear little hands she would raise, 
So tremblingly feeble, so small and so soft, 

In prayer and the music of praise ! 



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Death, what a loveliness holy and calm, 

All silently solemnly sweet, 
Invested with bliss and anointed with balm 

My babe from her face to her feet! 
The silken -fringed eyelashes slept on her cheek, 

And her mouth was a rosebud half-blown, 
And her fingers were folded so prayerfully meek, 

And her foot was a lily in stone ! 



In an ark snowy -white with its silvery sheen, 

And scattered with flow'rets of spring, 
Deep under the turf all mossy and green, 

We have left thee, thou dear little thing ! 
In hope, though in grief, — in affection and prayer, 

Assured of the soon coming hour 
"When that precious root, buried tearfully there, 

Shall shoot up again as a flower ! 



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With hyacinth bulbs we have yearningly traced 

In her garden her musical name, 
And know that wherever each bulb hath been placed 

It surely shall blossom the same; 
So thou, hidden rootlet of life and of light, 

Though seeming to moulder away, 
Shalt break away bright from the prison of Night 

To bloom for Eternity's day ! 

My glorified Alice! look joyously down 

Wherever in spirit thou art, 
And suffer the gleam of thy wings and thy crown 

To gladden the eyes of my heart ! 
Those thin picking fingers, at rest from all pain, 

Stretch forth from the skies for a kiss, — 
That faltering tongue, let me hear it again, 

" P'aying p'ayers," as a spirit in bliss ! 



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My beauty ! my darling ! my precious ! my prize ! 

My cherub, my saint, and my sweet ! 
My child that hast won the bright goal of the skies, 

My herald in heaven to meet ! 
O thanks be to God, that his bountiful love 

To me the glad blessing hath given, 
My babe — to be heir of His glory above, 

My daughter — His daughter in Heaven ! 



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Alas ! how little have I known thee, Brother, 
How lightly prized the riches of thy worth ; 
How seldom sought thee out to cherish thee, 
And sun my spirit in thy light of love ! 
How have I let the world and all its ways, 
Ahsence and distance, cares and interests, 
The many poor excuses that we make 
For lax communion with a brother's heart, — 
How have I stood aside, and left such tares 
To grow up rank, and choke the precious seed ! 
How have I let such fogbanks of reserve, 
Such idle clouds of undesign'd neglect 
Hide from my spirit thy most lovely light ! 



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— Alas ! — too late : — but that we meet again, — 

"Where spirits are made perfect; and shall glow 

With happier fervour in each other's joy ; 

For this our introductory world doth lead 

To one where all is open, heart with heart 

Commingling intimately as flame with flame : 

Oh, not too late, dear Brother ! for my soul 

Was ever yearning secretly on thee ; 

W^as ever full of thoughts unshown, unspoken, 

That from the censer of affection rose 

In ceaseless love for thee, my gentle Brother ! 

For, if an angel ever walk'd this earth 

In blessed ministration of all good, 

In meekness, patience, purity and truth, 

In self-denying, and self-sacrificing, 

In holiness and cheerfulness of life, 

And all things else of beautiful and kind, 

— Alas ! we little heeded all thy worth 

Till we had lost this angel unawares ; 



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O pitiful ! to watch those precious eyes, 

Those kindled diamonds with their sunny light, 
Changing from orbs of day to orbs of night, — 
Dimming to pearls ! — for Providence most wise 

So hath decreed of thee, my poor pale child; 
And we shall see thy face, so soft and mild, 
Looking up blank and sightless to the skies ! 

Well, — we will love thee more, and be more kind, 
Cheer thee in heart, and cherish thee in mind; 
And gentle music shall delight thee much, 

And Memory with her pictures, — and Content, — 
And, — who can tell ? for we have heard of such, — 
Art yet may reach thee with her healing touch, 
And bring those eyes agahi from banishment. 



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The Church ? — how gladly would I hear the Church : 
I long to love and honour and obey, 
And truly to he guided in the way, 
And comforted and counselled in my search : 

But where — where is She ? who shall strike the truth 
Between opposing factions, priest and lay, 

The one, to Rome perverting half our youth, 
The other leading liberally astray? 
Is She indeed embalm'd in magic rite, 
And sacramental miracle forsooth, 
Resurgent from that mediaeval night? 

Nor rather living still, and to he found, 
"With secret ministration shedding light, 
In men of every race and sect around ? 
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Born, but to die ! — happier lot than ours, 
Born to do battle in this world of strife 
With cares and wrongs and wants and woes of life, 
Guilt that o'erclouds and Evil that o'erpowers 

Our threescore years and ten with sorrows rife: 
Born, but to die ! favour' d little one, 
So soon and easily to overleap 
Sin's moat, drawn black all round us broad and deep, 
And in the glory of a brighter sun 
To spring at once to Eden's greenest bowers ! 
Yes, happy innocent, thy goal is won 

Without one effort but that waking sleep, 
Winning the race though scarcely well begun, 
And ripe for bliss though never taught to weep ! 



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Not blest ? not saved ? Who dares to doubt all well 
With holy Innocence, a Christian seed? 
Presumptuous priest, — I scorn thy bigot creed, 

And tell thee, — truer than the Fathers tell, — 

That babes new-born are Jesu's lambs indeed ! 
Thou teachest, that, as if by magic force, 

A rite, a formula, redeems from hell, — 

I A drop of water saving as of course, — 

And this unspilt, no Grace ! — heathen spell, 
Home's heresy ! — there is a surer source 

Of baptism for the soul than thou canst give, 
And Christian parents dip their children there 

Unborn, or born, to die, as well as live, 
In Heaven's own font of faith and hopeful pray'r. 



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How pleasantly from out tlieir arches golden 
These faces smile on me ; how kindly they 
By beauteous love my loyalty embolden, 

And round my heart- springs like a sunbeam play, 
And with sweet voices to my spirit say 
Up ! our true knight, — as in the tourneys olden, — 
Stand thou for us against all evil tongues ! 
In truth, O Eoyal Children of my Queen, 
My spirit vows, I will ! — 'twas ever seen 
In this poor world that calumnies and wrongs 
Afflict the highest ; it hath sometimes been 
A mouse may save the lion from a snare ; 
So, may my true devotion help to spare 

From any grief these gracious looks serene. 



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Durham, — I well appreciate thy thought, 
This pleading epic huilded up of clay, 
This new-created clod, so cold and gray 
Yet so mindsodden and with feeling fraught, 
To exquisite perfection slowly wrought 

By thy true zeal through many a night and day : 
Still must it he as it hath ever been, 
Genius is hound; his eagle wings are caught 
In that old serpent's coil ; his hands are seen 
Powerless at his side; his glances keen 
Proclaim a quiet holy baffled strength, — 

No vulgar struggle with constraining fate, 
~No concentrated wilfulness of hate, 
But calm resolve to soar aloft at length. 



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Once more in the tourney of Science and Art 

Our chivalrous millions contend ; 
Keady and Trilling with head and with heart 
To do what we can on Humanity's part 

As neighbour, and brother, and friend. 



For Commerce and Freedom and Truth to advance, 

For growth of the good and the wise, — 
In generous rivalry breaking a lance 
We go to be guests of magnanimous France, 
And tilt for Utility's prize. 






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In generous rivalry, — seeing we must, — 

Our armies have gone to the war, 
To trample Ambition's brute force to the dust, 
And succour the weak in the cause that is just, 
And break the proud strength of the Czar. 



In generous rivalry now, side by side, 

We conquer by land and by sea, 
From Aland to Alma as brothers allied 
We fight and we bleed, — we have triumphed and died- 

Together, to set the world free ! 



And in the like kindliness, here in the West 

As there in the storm-driven East, 
We bring for each other the first and the best. 
And spread — that the world may be better'd and blest- 

Our great international feast. 



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Give glory to God for such hearty goodwill. 

Uniting traditional foes, — 
That both our ambitions are satisfied still 
With conquests of science and triumphs of skill 

And trophies unpurchased by woes. 



How happily better than days that are past 
When trophies were bought by the sword,- 
When victories rode on the hurricane blast, 
And enmities threaten'd for ever to last, 
And neighbour his neighbour abhorrd ! 



Yes ! well to be cherish'd, O brothers and friends, 

Is such an alliance as this, — 
Where each in forgiveness sincerely extends 
The right hand of fellowship, making amends, 

And pays for a blow with a kiss. 



201 



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V 

Bewabe of mere delusive eloquence, — 

Your hackney'cl clever talkers, who can make 
Evil seem good for place and party sake, 
Well skill'd in dialectic thrust and fence ; 
Let common honesty and common sense 

Come to thy council hoard; no longer take 
For statesmen some few scornful consulars 
The scions of great families, — for such 

Less love the People's friendship than the Czar's, 
Doting on courts and dynasties too much 
For England's honour in these latter wars : 
Extinguish all those wranglers of dehate 

Corrupt with family feuds and party jars, 
And choose the Good and Wise to serve the State. 



202 



ittttfeSSt. 



If only merit ever should prevail, 

And birth and riches take then 1 lower seat, 
(Unless deserving too, as is most meet) 

If ever zeal and prowess should not fail 
Of honour, and promotion, and command, 
They ought to help the Soldier: in his hand 

The country's welfare, glory, and defence 
Bound up like fasces round the Colours stand: 
But outraging both right and common sense, 

Merit with us is nothing; money, friends, 

And years, produce our chieftains rich and old; 

While the poor gentleman, whom England sends 
To guard the right amid Crimean cold, 

Is crush'd beneath the mammon he defends. 



203 



Caste. 



Would that a spirit kindlier and less cold, 
More brotherly, more equal, could be seen 
Those members of one family between, 
Our troops and their commanders ! — All are bold, 

All heroes in the field; but hard routine 
Too strongly separate makes all beside, 
By dint of fashion, luxury, and pride: 
O shame, to knit the brow and blanch the cheek ! 
The fierce-lipp'd major, rich and well-allied, 
And pamper'd up for pleasures at his mess, 
To these poor privates hardly deigns to speak 

And has no heart to cheer them in distress : — ■ 
Haste, nobler natures, — those old barriers break, 
And gladden comrades by new kindliness ! 



204 



Hclu Statesmen. 



We want the Good; the men of just intent, 

Lovers of right who will not wink at wrong, 

Men of high principle and purpose strong, 
On Duty and the common welfare hent ; 

We want no longer, — we have had too long — 
The Siren-talkers false and eloquent, 
Mighty in word, but paralysed in deed ; 

Too long the mere adventurers, whose aim 
Is self- advancement from their country's need; 

O party gamesters, hide yourselves for shame ! 
England calls out for Patriots good and true, 

— What if plebeian, so they save the State 
Men to diplomacy and office new, 

Pure-hearted, and unhackney'd in debate. 



205 



%\t Jflttfj §al%. 



A mindful man, but hearted like a child, 

Lived near my dwelling : he was frank and glad. 
Though many sorrows might have made him sad, 

But, to say sooth, his cheerfulness beguiled 
The way of life so well, that trouble's power 
Was half unheeded, like a passing shower: 

Still as he went he sang, hoping the best, 
And restless energy claim'cl every hour, 

And with a buoyant spirit he was blest : 
One day we rode together on the grass, 

Talking of bygone years and all the rest 
So look'd for and so swiftly seen to pass, 
When, as my gloomier spirit sigh'd Alas ! 

Thus to his pony's gallop keeping time 

His heart exulting pour'd itself in rhyme : — 



206 

Huzzah, — huzzah ! 
For so much thrown behind my back, 
And so many patches of light on my track, 
And so much done, and so much won, 
And life's race hitherto honestly run, 
For honour, and hope, and enough, and to spare, 
And perfect Providence everywhere, 
For peace and pleasure by nights and days, 
Huzzah ! give God the praise ! 



Huzzah for the past, whatever betide; 
Huzzah! in piety, not in pride: 
Grateful and glad may the spirit be seen, 
And humble at heart, though triumphant in mien, 
While Sincerity sings right out 
Where Vanity lying would darken with doubt,- — 
For happiness, honour, and help always, 
Huzzah! give G-qd the praise! 



20/ 



Yes, — for friends on every shore, 
Loving and blessing us more and more, — 
Yes, — for a sowing in every clime, 
To bud and to bear to the end of time, — 
Yes, — for a reaping rare and good, 
A heavenly harvest of angels' food, 
Mercies, comforts, pardoning love, 
And grace upon earth, and glory above, 
friend ! with me our chorus raise, 
Huzzah ! give God the praise ! 



0EH AOSA. 



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Dr. Aiken and Mrs. Barb auld. Sixteenth Edition, revised and newly 
arranged hy Arthur Aiken, Esq. and Miss Aiken. With Engravings by 
Harvey. Fcap. cloth, 3s. 6d. 

EVENINGS IN MY TENT ; or, Wanderings in the African Sahara. 
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cloth, 245. 

EXPOSITORY HEADINGS ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 

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Rev John Cumming, D.D. Second Edition. Fcap. cloth, 7s. 6d. 

FARR'S (Edward) MANUAL OF GEOGRAPHY, Physical and 
Political. For the use of Schools and Families, with Questions for Exami- 
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FELTON'S (J.) IMPROVED METHOD OF PERFORMING COM- 
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THE TEACHER'S MANUAL OF MENTAL 

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FIRESIDE STORIES ; or, Recollections of my Schoolfellows. Third 
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FLETCHER (Rev. Alexander, d.d.),— A GUIDE TO FAMILY 

DEVOTION, containing 730 Hymns, Prayers, and Passages of Scripture, 
with appropriate reflections. The whole arranged to form a Complete ar.d 
Distinct Family Service for every Morning and Evening in the Year, with 
Illustrations. Fortieth Thousand, revised, 4to. cloth, gilt edges, 11. 6s. 

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PREACHER AND JUVENILE MISCELLANY. With Numerous Illus- 
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FOOTSTEPS TO NATURAL HISTORY. With Cuts. 16mo. 

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FORESHADOWS ; or, LECTURES on our LORD'S MIRACLES and 

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cloth, full gilt, 9s. each. 

FORTY DAYS IN THE DESERT, ON" THE TRACK OF THE 

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gravings on Steel, a Map, and numerous Woodcuts. Fifth Edition, super- 
royal 8vo. cloth, full gilt, \2s. ; morocco elegant, 21s. 

FRANK FAIRLEGH ; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. 
By F. E. Smedley, Esq. With Thirty Illustrations, by George Cruik- 
shank. Svo. cloth, 16s. 

FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRIMER. With One Hundred En- 
gravings on Wood. Sewed, 6d. 

GAVAZZI (Father) LIFE OF. By Campanelli, in English or Italian. 

Crown Svo. cloth, Is. 6d. each. 

GELDART'S (Mrs. Thomas) LOVE, A REALITY, NOT ROMANCE. 

With Cuts by Gilbert. Fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d. 

~ ELDER BROTHERS. lGmo. cloth, 9d. 

EM1LIE, THE PEACE-MAKER. Fcap. cloth, 2*. Gd. ; gilt edges, 3j. 

— STORIES OF SCOTLAND. Fcap. cloth, 2s. Gd. ; gilt edges, 3s. 

THOUGHTS OF HOME. Fcap. cloth, 2s. Gd. 

- TRUTH IS EVERYTHING. 2d Edit. Fcap. cloth, 2*. 6&; gilt edges, 3*. 

GEMS OF EUROPEAN ART. The best Pictures of the best Schools, 

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F.S.A. Two Vols, folio cloth, gilt edges, 5/. 

GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 

Illustrated Edition, with Memoir of the Author, and additional Notes, 
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Two Vols, super-royal 8vo. cloth gilt, 11. 16s. 

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GILES'S (Jas.) ENGLISH PARSING LESSONS. Seventeenth 
Edition. 12mo. cloth, 25. 6d> 

GLEANINGS, ANTIQUARIAN AND PICTORIAL, ON THE 

OVERLAND ROUTE. By W. H. B artlett. With Twenty-eight Plates 
and Maps, and numerous Woodcuts. Second Edition, super-royal Svo. 
cloth gilt, I65.; morocco elegant, 285. 

GODWIN (Rev. B., d.d.) — THE PHILOSOPHY OF ATHEISM 

EXAMINED, AND COMPARED WITH CHRISTIANITY. A Course 
of Popular Lectures, delivered at Bradford, Yorkshire, in January and 
February, 1853. Third Edition. Fcap. cloth, 35. 

GRIEVE (John),— THE FARMER'S ASSISTANT, AND AGRICUL- 
TURIST'S CALENDAR. New and Enlarged Edition. Fcap. cloth, 45. 

GRIFFITH'S (Ralph T. H., m.a. m.r.a.s.) SPECIMENS OF OLD 

INDIAN POETRY. Translated from the Original Sanskrit into English 
Terse. Post Svo. cloth, 5s. 

HACK'S (Maria) ENGLISH STORIES OF THE OLDEN TIME. 

Vignettes by Harvey. New Edition. Two Vols. [In preparation. 

GRECIAN STORIES. With Illustrations. New Edition. 

[In preparation. 

HARRY BEAUFOY; or, the Pupil of Nature. New 

Edition, with Cuts by Landseer. 18mo. cloth, 25. 

_ STORIES OF ANIMALS. Adapted for Children from 

Three to Ten Years of Age. With Illustrations. Two Vols. 16mo. cloth, 
25. each. 

-WINTER EVENINGS; or, Tales of Travellers. New Edition. 



Illustrations by Gilbert. Fcap. cloth, 35. 6d. 

HAIGH'S (X, a.m.) LATIN POCKET DICTIONARY ; designed for 
the Junior Forms in Schools. New Edition, 18mo. bound, 25. 6d. 

HAIRBY'S RAMBLES IN NORMANDY, with Eight Engravings 
after Turner and Stan field, and numerous Woodcuts. 4to. cloth, gilt 
edges, 55. 

HALL (Mrs. S. C.) ? — PILGRIMAGES TO ENGLISH SHRINES. 

With Notes and Illustrations by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A, New and 
cheaper Edition. In One Vol. Svo. cloth, gilt edges, 215. 

TALES OF WOMAN'S TRIALS. 



With Illustrations. Svo. cloth, gilt edges, I 

- (Mr. and Mrs. S. C.) IRELAND, ITS SCENERY AND 

CHARACTER. New Edition, with numerous Engravings on Steel, Maps, 
and Five Hundred W^oodcuts. Three Vols, royal Svo. cloth, 31. 3s. 

- HANDBOOKS FOR IRELAND, with numerous Illustrations. 

No. 1.— DUBLIN AND WICKLOW. 
No. 2.— THE SOUTH AND KILLARNEY. 
No. 3.— NORTH AND THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY. 
No 4.— THE WEST AND CONNEMARA. 
16mo, cloth, 2s, 6d, each. 



PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO. 11 



HALL (Mr. and Mrs. S. C.),— A WEEK AT KILLARNEY, being 

a Guide to Tourists to the Lakes of Killarney. Illustrated by Twenty 
Engravings on Steel, and One Hundred and Ten Woodcuts. New Edition, 
4to. cloth, 8s. 

(Bishop),— TREATISES, with Essay by Rev. R. Cattermole, 

B.D. Fcap. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

HAMMERSMITH PROTESTANT DISCUSSION (The), between Dr. 

Cumming and Mr. French. Cheap Edition, Tenth Thousand, crown Svo. 
cloth, 6s. 

HAPPY TRANSFORMATION" ; or, the History of a London Ap- 
prentice. With Preface, Toy Rev. J. A. James. 18mo. cloth, la. 

HEART ; a Tale of False-witness. By Martin F. Tupper, D.C.L. 
With Frontispiece by Leech. Post Svo. cloth, Is. 6d. 

HENDRY'S HISTORY OF GREECE. In Easy Lessons. Adapted 
to Children of from Six to Ten Years of Age. With Illustrations. 18mo. 
cloth, 2s. 

HISTORY OF ROME. In Easy Lessons. Adapted for 

Children of from Six to Ten Years of Age. "With Illustrations. ISmo. 
cloth, 2s. 

HEROINES OF THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE; or, Sketches 
of Prominent Female Missionaries. By Daniel C. ; Eddy. With Preface 
by the Rev. John Cumming, D D. Second Edition, fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 
2s. 6d. 

HERVEY (Mrs. T. K.),— THE DOUBLE CLAIM, a Tale of Real 
Life. "With Frontispiece by Weir. Post Svo. Is. 6d. 

JUVENILE CALENDAR (The) AND 



ZODIAC OF FLOWERS. With Twelve Illustrations of the Months, by 
Richard Doyle. Post Svo. cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d. 

HIGGINS' (Wm.) RESEARCHES IN THE SOLAR REALM. Fcap. 

cloth, 2s. 6d. 

HISTORICAL PRINTS OF ENGLISH HISTORY. By Emily Taylor. 

Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged, with numerous Illustrations. Fcap. 
cloth, 2s. 6d. 

— . — — Representing the principal events in the 

HISTORY OF GREECE. With many Cuts. Fcap. cloth, 2*. 6d. 

HOFLAND LIBRARY; for the Instruction and Amusement of 
Youth. Illustrated with Plates, and handsomely bound in embossed 
Scarlet Cloth, with Gilt Edges, &c. 

FIRST CLASS, in 12mc— Price 2s. 6d. 

1. MEMOIR of the LIFE and LITERARY REMAINS of MRS. HOFLAND. 

By T. Ramsay, Esq. With Portrait. 



2. Alfred Campbell. 

3. Decision ; a Tale. 

4. Energy. 

5. Fortitude. 

6. Humility. 

7. Integrity. 



8. Moderation. 

9. Patience. 

10. Reelection. 

11. Self-Denial. 

12. Young Cadet. 

13. Young Pilgrim. 



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HOFLAND LIBRARY :- 



SECOND CLASS, in ISmo.— Price Is. Gd. 



1. Adelaide. 

2. Affectionate Brothses. 

3. Alicia and her Aunt. 

4. Barbados Girl. 

5. Blind Farmer and his Children. 

6. Clergyman's Widow. 

7. Daughter-in-Law. 

8. Elizabeth. 



9. Godmother's Tales. 

10. Good Grandmother. 

11. Merchant's "Widow. 

12. Rich Boys and Poor Boys. 

13. The Sisters. 

14. Stolen Boy. 

15. William and his Uncle Ben. 

16. Young Crusoe. 



HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD. Impressions of America. By 
Fredrika Bremer. With Illustrations. Three Vols. Svo. cloth, lt.lls.6d. 

HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOS. MORE, (Ye.) Libellus a Margarets 

More, quindecim annos nata, Chelseiae inceptus. Second Edition, with 
Portrait. Cloth, red edges, 7s. Gd ; morocco antique, 14s. 

HOW TO WIN LOVE ; or, Rhoda's Lesson. A Story Book for the 
Young. By the Author of" Michael the Miner," " Cola Monti," &c. With 

Illustrations on Steel. New Edition, 16mo. cloth, gilt edges, 2s. Gd. 

HUMBOLDT'S (Baron William Von) LETTERS TO A LADY. 

From the German. With Introduction by Dr. Stebbing. Post Svo. Is. Gd. 

HUME AND SMOLLETT'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, with con- 
tinuation to 1S46, by Farr. With Porcraits, &c. Three Vols, imperial 
Svo. cloth, 1/. 11*. Gd. 



HYMNS AND SKETCHES IN VERSE. 

cloth, 2s. 6d. 



With Cuts. 16mo. 



ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL 

EXHIBITION OF 1851. published in connexion with the Art Journal, 
containing upwards of Fourteen Hundred Engravings on Wood, and a 
Frontispiece on Steel. 4to. cloth, gilt edges, One Guinea. 



ILLUSTRATED FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRIMER. 

Hundred Engravings on Wood. Sewed, Gd. 



With One 



ILLUSTRATED YEAR-BOOK of Wonders, Events, and Discoveries. 
Edited by John Ti:ubs. With numerous Engravings on Wood. Two vols. 
fcap. cloth, 3s. Gd. each. 

INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CHIAPAS, 

AXD YUCATAN. By J. L. Stephens. New Edition, by F. Gather- 

Wood. With numerous Illustrations, Svo. cloth, 12s. 

INFANT SALVATION ; or, All Saved who Die in Infancy, Speci- 
ally addressed to Mothers mourning the Loss of Infants and Children. By 
Bev. John Gumming, D.D. Fourth Edition, fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 2s. 

IRELAND, ITS SCENERY, AND CHARACTER, By Mb. and Mrs. 

S. C. Hall. With numerous Engravings on Steel, and Five Hundred 
Woodcuts. New Edition, Three Vols, royal Svo. cloth, 3/. 3s. 



PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO. 13 



IS CHRISTIANITY FROM GOD] A Manual of Christian 
Evidences for Scripture Readers, Sunday School Teachers, City Mission- 
aries, and Young Persons. By Rev. John Cumming, D.D. Tenth 
Edition, fcap. cloth, 3s. 

JACK AND THE TANNER OF WYMONDHAM ; a Tale of the 
Time of Edward VI. By the Author of " Mary Powell." Post Svo. Is. 6d. 
(Railway Reading.) 

JAY (Ret. W.) — FINAL DISCOURSES AT ARGYLE CHAPEL, 

BATH. Post Svo. cloth, 10s. Grf. 



PORTRAITURE OF. Fcap. cloth, 3a. 6d. 



JERDAN'S (William) AUTOBIOGRAPHY; With his Literary, 

Political, and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence, during the last 
Forty Years, as Editor of the "Sun" Newspaper, 1812-17, and of the 
"Literary Gazette." 1817-50, in connexion with most of the Eminent 
Persons who have been distinguished in the past half-century as Statesmen, 
Poets, Authors, Men of Science, Artists, &c. Post Svo. with Portraits, &c. 
Complete in 4 Vols, cloth, 21s, 

JULIAN ; or, the Close of an Era. By L. F. Bungexer, Author of 
" History of the Council of Trent." Two Vols, cloth, 10*. 6d. 

JUVENILE ANECDOTES ; or, Stories of Children. By P. Wake- 
field. New Edition. 18mo. cloth, 2s. 

JUVENILE CALENDAR (The) AND ZODIAC OF FLOWERS. 

By Mrs. T. K. Hervey. With Twelve Illustrations of the Months, hy 
Richard Doyle. Post Svo. cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d. 

KEATING (Elizabeth),— RAYMOND BURY, a Tale. Illustrated by 
Mrs. Ingram. Fcap. cloth, 6s. 

KING ALFRED'S POEMS. Now first turned into English Metre, 
by Mr. Tupper. Cloth, 3*. 

LAURIE (James) —TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST FOR EVERY 

DAY IN THE YEAR, at 5, 4£, 4, 3$, 3, and 2h per cent, per annum, from 
11. to 100?., &c. Nineteenth EditionfsOO pp. Svo. cloth, 1/. Is. 
" In the great requisites of simplicity of arrangement and comprehen- 
siveness we have seen none better adapted for general use." — McCulloch's 
Commercial Dictionary. 

- TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

and 9^ per cent, per annum, from 1 day to 100 days. Third Edition, Svo. 
cloth, 7s. 

LAWRENCE'S (Miss) STORIES FROM THE OLD AND NEW 

TESTAMENT. New Edition, with Engravings. [In preparation. 

LECONS POUR DES ENFANS, depuis i'age do Deux Ans jusqu'a 
Cinq. Avec une Interpretation Anglaise. By Mrs. Bareauld. New 
Edition. 18mo. cloth, 2s. 

LECTURES FOR THE TIMES ; or, Illustrations and Refutations of 
the Errors of Romanism and Traetarianism. By Rev. John Cumming, 
D.D. New Edition, Revised and Corrected, with Additions, reap, 
cloth, 6s. 

LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN. By Rey. John Gumming, D.D. A 

collected edition, with additions. [In preparation. 



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LETTERS AND POEMS, selected from the Writings of BERNARD 
Barton. With Memoir, Edited "by his Daughter. New Edition, with 
Portrait. Ecap. cloth, 35. 6d. ; large paper, 10s. 

LETTERS TO A LADY. By Baron William Von Humboldt. 

Erom the German. With Introduction hy Dr. Stebbing. Post 8vo. 1*. 6d. 

LEWIS ARUNDEL; or, the Railroad of Life. By P. E. Smedlet, Esq. 
Author of " Frank Fairlegh." With Illustrations hy H. K. Browne. (Phiz.) 
8vo. cloth, 22s. 

LIMED TWIGS TO CATCH YOUNG BIRDS. By the Authors of 

" Original Poems." ISmo. cloth, 2s. 

LITTLE BOOK OF OBJECTS. With Cuts. 16mo. cloth, 25. 

LITTLE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE ; containing Useful Information 
on Common Things, for Young Children. By Elizabeth G. Noverre. 
With Eight Illustrations. 16mo. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

LOVE, A REALITY, NOT ROMANCE. By Mrs. Thomas Geldart. 

With Cuts by Gilbert. Fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 3*. 6d. 

MACKIE'S (C.) CASTLES, PALACES, AND PRISONS OF MARY 
QUEEN OF SCOTS. With Forty-eight Illustrations. Royal Svo. cloth 
gilt, las. 

MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL, afterwards 
MISTRESS MILTON. Third Edition, with Portrait. Post Svo. cloth, 
red edges, 7s. 6d; morocco antique, 14s. 
" This is a charming little hook ; and whether we regard its subject, clever- 
ness, or delicacy of sentiment or expression — to say nothing of its type 
and orthography — it is likely to be a most acceptable present to young or 
old, be their peculiar taste for religion, morals, poetry, history, or 
romance."— Christian Observer. 

CHERRY AND VIOLET : a Tale of the Great Plague. 

By thejVuthor of " Mary Powell." 2d Edit. Post Svo. cloth, antique, Is. 6d. 

CHRONICLES OF MERRY ENGLAND. Fcap. 8vo. 35. 6d. 

CLAUDE THE COLPORTEUR, With Coloured Frontis- 
piece after Warren. Post Svo. cloth, 7s. 6d. 

COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE (The), Citizen 

and Cloth-Worker of London, as reported by the Author of " Mary Powell." 
Second Edition, post Svo. cloth, red edges, 7s. 6d. ; morocco antique, 145. 

JACK AND THE TANNER OF WYMONDHAM. 

A Tale of the Time of Edward VI. Post Svo. Is. 6d. " Railway Reading." 

PROVOCATIONS OF MADAME PALISSY (The). With 

Coloured Frontispiece, by Warren. Post Svo. cloth, 7s. 6d. 

QUEENE PHILIPPA'S GOLDEN BOOKE. Handsomely 

bound and gilt, with Illuminations. 

Ye HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THO s . MORE. Libellus a 



Margareta More, quindecem annos nata, Chelseiae incept us. Third 
Edition, with Portrait, &c, cloth, red edges, 7s. 6d. ; morocco antique, 14s. 

MANUAL (A) OF THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE 
HUMAN MIND, By the Rev, J, Carole, P,D. Fcap. cloth, 5s. 



PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO. 15 

MANUAL OF HERALDRY, being a concise Description of the 
several Terms used, arid containing a Dictionary of every Designation in 
the Science. Illustrated by 400 Engravings on Wood. New Edition, fcap. 
cloth, 3s. 

MANUAL OF GEOGRAPHY, Physical and Political. For the use 
of Schools and Families, with Questions for Examination. By Edward 
Fare,, with numerous Illustrations. Fcap. cloth, 3s. 

MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. Illustrated by numerous Engravings. 
By N. Whittock. Fcap. cloth, 3s. 

MERRIFIELD (Mrs.),— DRESS AS A FINE ART. With Illustrations. 

post 8vo. 2s. 6d. 

MESSAGE FROM GOD (A) ; or, Thoughts on Religion for Thinking 
Men. By Rev. John Cumming, D.D. Fourth Edition, fcap. cloth, gilt 
edges, 2s. 

METEYARD'S (Eliza) DOCTOR'S LITTLE DAUGHTER. The 

Story of a Child's Life amidst the Woods and Hills. With numerous 
Illustrations hy Harvey. Foolscap, cloth, gilt edges, Is. 6d. 

M'HENRY'S SPANISH COURSE.— 

A NEW AND IMPROVED GRAMMAR, designed for every Class of 
Learners, and especially for Self-instruction. Containing the Elements of 
the Language and the Rules of Etymology and Syntax Exemplified ; with 
Notes and Appendix, consisting of Dialogues, Select Poetry, Commercial 
Correspondence, &c. New Edition, Revised. 12mo. bound, 8s. 

— EXERCISES ON THE ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, IDIOMS, 

&c. of the SPANISH LANGUAGE. Fifth Edition, 12mo. hound, 4s. 



KEY TO THE EXERCISES. 12mo. bound, 4*. 

SYNONYMES OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE EX- 
PLAINED. 12mo. and 8vo. 5s. 6d. each. 

MIALL (Edward, M.P.) — BASES OF BELIEF, an Examination of 
Christianity as a Divine Revelation hy the light of recognised Facts and 
Principles. In Four Parts. Second Edition, 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d. 

— — — BRITISH CHURCHES IN RELATION 



TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE. Cheap Edition, post 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

- VIEWS OF THE VOLUNTARY 



PRINCIPLE, in Four Series. Second Edition. Fcap. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

MIALL (Rev. J. G.),— MEMORIALS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY. 

Presenting, in a graphic, compact, and popular form, some of the memorahle 
events of Early Ecclesiastical History. With Illustrations. Post 8vo. 
cloth, 5s. 

MIRACLES OF NATURE AND MARVELS OF ART. 

Vol. I.— SEAS, SHIPS, and ADVENTURES. 16 Engravings. 
Vol. II.— LAND CREATION. 14 Engravings. 
Vol. III.— THE TROPICS & THE POLES. 10 Engravings. 
Vol. IV.— NATURE AND ART. 18 Engravings. 
Is, each, square boards. 



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MODERN ROMANISM. By B. B. Woodwabd, B.A. A popularly 

written account of the convocation and the proceedings of the Council of 
Trent, with a readable version of its authorized Formularies, showing what 
Romanism then became, and by v;hat means it was changed. [Jn prep. 

MONOD (A.) —WOMAN" : HER MISSION, AND HER LIFE. Trans- 
lated from the French by Rev. W. G-. Barrett. Second Edition, 18mo. 
cloth, Is. 6d. ; gilt edges, 2s. 

- SAINT PAUL. Five Discourses. Translated from 



the French by Rev. W. G. Barrett. ISmo. cloth, Is. 

MONTGOMERY (Robert, m.a) ,— THE OMNIPRESENCE OF THE 

DEITY, and other Poems. Twenty-fifth Edition, Illustrated by Corbould, 
fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 2*. (id. 

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, a Manual 



of Sacred Verse. Second Edition, fcap. cloth, 7s. 6d. 

MOUBRAY'S TREATISE ON DOMESTIC AND ORNAMENTAL 

POULTRY. New Edition, revised and greatly enlarged by L. A. Meall, 
with the Diseases of Poultry, by Dr. Horner. With Coloured Illustra- 
tions. Fcap. cloth, 8s. 

MY BOY'S FIRST BOOK. By Miss M. Feazer Tytlek. With 

Cuts. 16mo. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

MY OLD PUPILS. By the Author of " My Schoolboy Days." With 
Four Illustrations on Wood. 16mo. cloth, gilt edges, 2s. 6d. 

MY YOUTHFUL COMPANIONS. By the same Author. With 
Frontispiece. 12mo. cloth, Is. 

NAOMI; or, the Last Days of Jerusalem. By Mrs. J. B. Webb. 
With Illustrations by Gilbert, &c. New Edition, Fcap. cloth, 7s. 6d. 

NARRATIVE (A) OF THE CONVERSION FROM POPERY of 

the Rev. G. Cerioxi and the Rev. L. D. Moscardi, formerly Padre 
Berardo da Jesi, and Padre Leonardo da Camarda. Including several 
Letters, and much interesting information by Signor Cerioni. Second 
Edition. 12mo. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

NEW GIFT BOOK FOR YOUTH, with Twenty-six Illustrations. 

16mo. boards, 2s. 6d. 

NILE BOAT (The) ; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt. By W. H. 

Bartlett. Illustrated by Thirty-five Steel Engravings and Maps, with 
numerous Cuts. Third Edition, super-royal Svo. cloth, full gilt, 16*.; 
morocco elegant, 2S,y. 

NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS : an Historical Sketch of Ancient 
Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the r3cent Researches in those 
Countries. By W. S. W. Vaux, M.A. oi" the British Museum. With 
numerous Illustrations. Third Edition, post Svo. cloth, 8*. ; mcwrocco 
elegant, 17*. 

OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES. By Rev. Jom Cummixo, D.D. New 

Edition. Two Volumes, fcap. cloth, 8*. 



PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO. IT 



OLD FOREST RANGER (The) ; or, Wild Sports of India on the 
Neilgherry Hills, the Jungles, and on the Plains. By Major Walter 
Campbell, of Skipness. New Edition, with Illustrations on Steel. Post 
8vo. cloth, 8*. 

OLD OAK CHEST ; or, a Book a Great Treasure. By the Author of 
" Charlie's Discoveries," &c. With Cuts. 16mo. cloth, 2s. 6d. 

OMNIPRESENCE OF THE DEITY, and other Poems. By Robert 
Montgomery, M.A. Twenty-fifth Edition, Illustrated by Coreould. 
Fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 2s. 6d. 

OPEN AND SEE; or, First Reading Lessons. By the Author of 
" Aids to Development," &c. &c. With Twenty-four Engravings on Wood. 
16mo. cloth, 2s. 

ORIGINAL POEMS FOR INFANT MINDS. A New and Revised 
Edition. Two Vols. 18mo. cloth, 1*. 6d. each. 

OUR FATHER ; a Manual of Family Prayers for General and Special 
Occasions, with Short Prayers for Spare Minutes, and Passages for Re- 
flection. By Rev. John Ctjmming, D.D. Sixth Edition, fcap. cloth, gilt 
edges, 3s. 

PAUL PERCIVAL; or, the Young Adventurer. With Cuts. 16mo. 

cloth, 2s. 6d. 

PAYNE'S (Joseph) SELECT POETRY FOR CHILDREN; with 

brief Explanatory Notes, arranged for the use of Schools and Families. 
Eleventh Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 18rno. cloth, 2s. 6d. ; with gilt 
edges, 3s. 

■ STUDIES IN ENGLISH POETRY; with short 

Biographical Sketches, and Notes Explanatory and Critical, intended as a 
Text-Book for the higher Classes in Schools, and as an Introduction to the 
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